Word: meaner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nemiroff, managing partner of the Los Angeles branch of the consulting firm BDO Seidman, whose 2,200 U.S. clients include retailers and manufacturers with sales of up to $100 million. "Most of our clients were able to downsize quickly," Nemiroff adds. "They are operating from a leaner and meaner position today...
...advance to Ellis and not publish his book after staff protests and press stories threatened risks greater than anticipated rewards. Snapped up at a bargain price by Random House for its Vintage division, the manuscript has undergone the editorial equivalent of liposuction. It is now leaner, meaner but not better. In fact, it is worse because the disgusting parts are easier to find. No plot or characterization has been inserted to mar the originality of the work's hostile infantilism. American Psycho still poses the challenging question: How much feces can a young writer smear on the wall before Mommy...
BAXTER. A vicious bull terrier (who growls the narration) finally finds an owner meaner than he is. Jerome Boivin's minimalist French thriller is no carnival of canine violence. It rarely goes for the jugular, yet it drains the viewer bloodless...
...innumerable rides on some 25 different roller coasters over the years. As a journalist, he chronicled the evolution of the roller coaster for TIME a decade ago. Woodbury found on this trip through the turnstiles that technological advances have made the chills even bigger. "The new rides are faster, meaner and more unpredictable than the old; and the steel, looping coasters that spin riders up, over and sideways require a stronger stomach," he reports. "Fortunately for traditionalists like myself, who savor the symmetry as well as the eerie creak of wood, there are plenty of big, new wooden coasters springing...
...second spot." In an unusual interjection in his dissenting opinion, Justice John Paul Stevens had taken a shot at such cynicism: "The integrity of the symbol has been compromised by those leaders who . . . seem to manipulate the symbol of national purpose into a pretext for partisan disputes about meaner ends...