There were suits in Paris too, albeit suits that are long and lean like those at Hermes, which were, typical of the house, all about luxury.

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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.

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Furthermore, since new mines can take as long as a decade to develop, mining executives say, and since firms made few investments during the lean years of the 1980s and 1990s, supply could take a long time to catch up with demand.

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With long candles, "you tend to lean back and you project your voice more, " he added.

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He drew a long highway (in perfect perspective and complete with the unmistakably Delta 65-degree-lean telephone poles), then tore his paper into pieces.

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It means working long past 5 PM, turning evenings, weekends and holidays into business opportunities, and struggling during lean times.

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He will be able to lean on a "strong bench" of executives that Jobs recruited and that Cook has long worked with, said Jackson, the analyst.

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It is important not to cut carbohydrates significantly on days that you are exercising strenuously, as this will negatively affect your energy level and will probably result in loss of lean body mass (muscle, bone, and water) which can impair weight loss efforts long term.

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