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...resentment, not to mention a grab bag of criminal tricks, that -- count on it -- they will take back to the streets. "All we do," says Dr. John May, one of the 10 doctors who service the 9,000 inmates at Chicago's Cook County Jail, "is produce someone meaner and angrier and more disillusioned with himself and society...
...highly automated mining processes. Colorado financed an ambitious drive to make Denver an international hub with a new $3 billion airport. Utah restructured its copper and steel mills and absorbed their laid-off workers into gleaming new aerospace, computer-software and financial-services facilities. "The Rockies became leaner and meaner ahead of the rest of the country," says Russell Behrmann, Utah's economic- development director of administration. When the national recession hit, the states were "recession resistant -- they had some built-in antibodies...
Personally, I'm bullish on America. For all our problems -- which are considerable, to put it mildly -- we've become leaner and meaner, and our quality has improved. Exports are up. Technology races along. And the flip side of the real estate collapse is the prospect of low rents -- bad for landlords and lenders, good for business and consumers. Hopeful signs...
...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...