Given all that outsourcing, it is no wonder that Amazon's own operation is the lean-and-hungry kind.
And they are furious with Mr Rumsfeld for risking the peace by sticking to his lean-warfare tactics.
The data showed, overwhelmingly, that the reduced-gas, more-air method of power management (called lean-of-peak, or LOP) worked best.
Creating a low barrier to engagement, much like Twitter does, could create a third category to consider: lean-between.
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Tablets are lean-back, browse-oriented experiences, and often used in conjunction with other media.
Additional tax credits for choosing hybrid, fuel cell, alternative fuel and advanced lean-burn technology vehicles have been offered since 2005.
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Peter Kafka wrote a thought-provoking article for All Things D a few weeks ago that leaned heavily toward lean-back.
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One of the most notable innovations: the development of a new catalyst material to purify exhaust from diesel or other lean-burning engines.
The avid outdoorsman hacked down some cypress trees to make a lean-to.
The company undoubtedly hoped its lean-forward approach would pay dividends by now.
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Two tiny bedrooms, a lean-to kitchen, half a mile from the village.
Engineering-first, hacker, lean-startup mentality is already beginning to disrupt traditional verticals.
Nor is their plight because of a lack of lean-in commitment.
And this isn't because of a lack of lean-in self-confidence.
Sure, the kickstand means you can set it up on a coffee table if you like, but that's hardly the ideal, couch-based, lean-back experience most tablets do so well.
The power of online learning communities is more visible in lean-running start-ups where skills must shift quickly, but I think their effect will be more profound in established companies on a global scale.
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Folks should learn a bit about modern org leadership, including basic concepts like slack, 20% free time, systems engineering, complex adaptive systems, self-organizing systems, emergence, Lean-Agile, Kanban, Scrum, Lean Startup, Radical Management, etc.
The Lexus' whirligig is familiar from the Toyota Camry and Avalon hybrids: a lean-burning Atkinson-cycle, 2.5-liter in-line four-cylinder (156 hp) coupled with two electric motors, one a 141-hp traction motor, the other a starter-generator.
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Danaher ( DHR), which owns several businesses in the health care field, including in the dental and life sciences and diagnostics areas, has gone so far as to create its own lean-oriented methodology, Danaher Business Systems.
John McTiernan and his wife Donna Dubrow, fresh from Los Angeles and the film industry, threw themselves into restoration, breeding new livestock (a lean-meat hybrid called a Beefalo), replanting tired fields, building reservoirs, and repairing old irrigation ditches.
So they took a page out of the s0-called Lean Start-up methodology to do customer development, the practice of talking to potential customers.
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Tosic - nicknamed Bambi because of his lean build - has appeared 12 times for his country and can play on either flank, having also starred for Serbia's Under-21 side.
"I'm not Mr. Anti-Boston, " said Michael Tamarro, a lean 41-year-old Rhode Island physics professor who started the Exeter race.
You may see the Arhuac in Pueblo Bello, with their white serapes (a long blanket-like shawl), tall coned hats, long black hair and beautifully stitched handbags slung across lean shoulders -- but they will rarely meet your gaze, looking down or off to the side, avoiding attention and gliding past with a cool effortlessness.
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.
Dickinson now eats 3, 000 calories a day -- mostly lean protein and vegetables -- to sustain his body-building lifestyle.
They both rely on lean direct-sales operations to sell their products to techies working deep in the bowels of large corporations.
That means the book is a product with a number of services attached and needs treating like any other lean start-up.
What a sight Nathaniel is, this lean African-American man lugging his cart full of instruments through hell, dreaming of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.
First and foremost, however, we look closely at the balance sheet and make sure the company is fiscally sound, with a lean price-to-earnings ratio.
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