Word: leans
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Said a high embassy official later: "The old man had to lean on him and substantially." The casual, colloquial phrase summed up a momentous fact: the U.S. was finally forced to abandon the man on whom for years it had staked its Viet Nam policy?and, indeed, finally forced to abandon Viet Nam. Even as Ambassador Martin returned to his embassy, the last remnants of the once mighty American presence, the few thousand citizens who remained in the country, were hastening to Tan Son Nhut airport for evacuation flights home. For North Viet Nam, Thieu's departure represented a stunning...
...outcome. In it, the Socialists, Popular Democrats and Communists each have two portfolios, and the Democratic Movement one. Real power will remain with the 28-member Revolutionary Council, composed of President Francisco da Costa Gomes, Premier Goncalves and other officers whose exact political makeup is not known, but who lean heavily to the left...
...only now being revived. More important to agricultural experts is the fact that the dam helped stave off droughts in the exceedingly dry years of 1972 and 1973. "We are forever saved," says William K. Shenouda, Under Secretary of State responsible for the dam, "from the cycle of seven lean years and seven fat years that Joseph encountered in biblical times." A team from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the University of Michigan, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology has begun a $1 million, three-year study that will evaluate Aswan's impact...
...ball on the rise, a technique first taught him by his mother, Gloria, and later stressed by Pancho Segura, the wily pro who has been Connors' instructor for the past six years. "Never let a ball come to you" is Segura's First Law. Charge the ball, he insists, lean into it and meet it on the rise. That attack tactic maximizes power and control and allows the player to move toward the net after the shot...
...Lean and Hungry. Yet for all the fear that precedes it, Mayday could well prove to be, at least for the moment, a massive "non-event." Commissions draw less attention from customers in strong markets, when heavy trading generates healthy incomes for brokers. More significant, Wall Street is tougher and more efficient than it was a few years ago, when poor market conditions heightened the dread of losing the crutch of fixed commissions. In the early '70s, for example, many sloppily managed firms were driven out of business because they were not automated enough to handle swelling trading volume...