Word: leans
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...People is to continue to fly, it must build up clientele to make it through the lean winter flying period. Last week's sale may just make that possible, but for some time to come, one of the airline industry's biggest success stories is likely to remain a cliff-hanger...
...Michelle Weyman-Daum reviewed the records of seven children, age seven months to 22 months, and found that the youngsters were all on low-fat, low-cholesterol diets and getting only 63% to 94% of the calories they needed. Parents typically substituted skim milk for whole, fed their toddlers lean meat and complex carbohydrates, and forbade eating between meals...
When William Rehnquist was appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard Nixon in 1971, he believed that the court was "heeling" to the left and felt obliged, as he later put it, "to lean the other way." He was not much of a counterweight. The high court at the time was still dominated by liberals from the Earl Warren era, and Rehnquist often found himself in lonely dissent against the Justices' rulings upholding the constitutional rights of blacks, women and the poor. Indeed, Rehnquist was on the short end of so many 8-to-1 votes that his law clerks...
...human eye to apprehend. When you ask someone for the time and he answers, "Four fifty-six and thirty-seven seconds," you know he's wearing a digital watch. If the fellow next to you has an analog watch, you might not even have to ask him. You simply lean over, and by noticing the general arrangement of the watch's hands, you know where you are in the day, even before the exact time registers in your brain as a number...
...result is a lean, sensuous narrative that suggests the existence of a place where affluent, middle-aged manuscripts can go for a rigorous diet and plastic surgery. The surface of The Garden of Eden is taut, chic and strangely contemporary. Newly married David and Catherine have pioneered their own Club Med on the Riviera. It is the perfect place for a sea change. The couple spend golden days brunching, mixing drinks with Perrier, wearing fisherman shirts and espadrilles, swimming and tanning in the buff. The rate of exchange is very favorable...