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But you have some outs, short of terminating the plan, to reduce contributions in a lean year.
FORBES: Investment Guide: Self-Employment
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But, unlike his fellow-villagers, he was renowned for having a deficit: he had been born in a lean year, and, to make matters worse, an estranged aunt had once lifted him from his crib and praised Heaven for what a gorgeous, fat, rosy baby he was thereby sealing forever his fate to be generally impoverished, crippled, struck down and taken by the Devil at some unexpected time, in some terrifying way.
NEWYORKER: The Tiger��s Wife
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"I'm not Mr. Anti-Boston, " said Michael Tamarro, a lean 41-year-old Rhode Island physics professor who started the Exeter race.
CNN: Forget Boston: Runners find alternatives to big race
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The hope is to flag borderline cases or high-risk patients not spotted by existing tests--like a lean, 40-year-old nonsmoker with an innate vulnerability to heart attack--and target these patients for drugs or lifestyle changes.
FORBES: The Suggestive Gene
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In a similar study presented at a conference last year, 75 lean women ate buffet meals for several days in a lab.
WSJ: People Who Taste Too Much
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Overall, they are proposing a 0.4% increase in spending for next year, which initially seems lean until one understands that they are projecting a 4% decline in enrollment, such that this still represents an increase in spending per pupil faster than inflation.
FORBES: Government Not Only Too Large, But Spending the Money in All the Wrong Places
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The 40-year-old has endured some lean years following a knee injury but two wins on the PGA Tour this season suggest he may yet add to his major tally.
BBC: US Open: Graeme McDowell triumphs at Pebble Beach
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First off, the lean culture now applies to 56, 200 employees, a 67% increase over a year earlier, when Amazon employed 33, 700.
FORBES: Connect
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The lean, taut eleven-year-old Cyril (Thomas Doret) escapes from a state center in search of his father, who abandoned him a month earlier and left no forwarding address.
NEWYORKER: The Kid with a Bike
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His biggest tournament win came in the 1999 Grand Slam Cup but this was followed by a lean period, the low point of which was a humiliating first round Wimbledon defeat to Vince Spadea the following year.
BBC: Greg Rusedski