• But you have some outs, short of terminating the plan, to reduce contributions in a lean year.

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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.

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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.

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  • The 47-year-old has since come to lean on his mentor, 23-year-old Eric Leist, for guidance on everything from the latest smartphone apps to the layout for a new office.

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  • We can infer that businesses are beginning to rebuild inventories after allowing them to become very lean over the last year.

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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.

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  • Hansbrough and Lighty are seniors so they had no choice but the trend should make future collegians lean to staying another year in school rather than coming out early since NBA scouts and general managers seem to place a higher value on the raw international players, who may be three to four years from making the roster.

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  • My biggest learning from this past year is to lean heavily on your personal connections, your friends and of course, your family.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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  • IILG, however, has been solidly profitable even in the lean years, and EPS has been rising year to year for the last three quarters.

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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.

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  • The fund has gained 37.88% in the past year and also includes holdings in cattle and lean hog futures.

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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.

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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.

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  • But Motsepe's lean operating style--not to mention the sweet financing deal--made the shafts profitable in the first year, though the initial months were nerve-racking as gold continued to fall.

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