Mail columnist Jan Moir, for one, penned an ode to "Britain's favourite chocs", criticising the "smaller, meaner" replacements.
This is the week that the new and much meaner British Welfare State comes into being.
Everyone was meaner, both the pols and the press, because they were all young.
Would he get careless and more easygoing as he drank, or meaner and wilder?
Chrysler and GM emerged from government-funded bankruptcy as leaner, and they hope, meaner organizations.
Not that ecommerce is doomed now that stores are adopting bigger and meaner tech tools.
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Long gone are the days where the higher up your position is, the meaner you need to be.
He was described by his owners as "sharp": liable to jettison those unable to anticipate his meaner tricks.
L.A.'s budget shot up 13% last year, that cash went to help the army get leaner, not meaner.
When they did get the endorsements, they went with their party, even if this meant embracing a meaner option.
The foreign secretary said Mr Cameron would take Britain back to the "meaner and more brutal" Britain of the 1980s.
You can sample the other varieties, but keep in mind that mescal packs a meaner punch than its kinder cousin tequila.
That optimism has given way to a sadder, meaner goal of preventing the middle classes from monopolising the good schools that already exist.
The idea that, after a period of expansion, the brain pares back its workforce to become leaner and meaner is somehow rather appealing.
Small businesses tend to stay leaner and meaner in their marketplace in part because they play fewer games with their customers or their employees.
Forced to compete in a leaner, meaner economy, some of these firms are lavishing costly training on their managers in order to ensure long-term survival.
Amos said, the Marines will emerge "leaner, meaner" but still effective.
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As more workers fall ill, company health schemes will become meaner.
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Belying their stuffy images, the streets of many market towns are now meaner than those in big cities, which tend to be policed by large forces.
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Compared with the immobile, conscript armies that many European states are still fielding, British forces can make a reasonable claim to be leaner, meaner and more modern.
But we have to acknowledge that competition means that businesses and workers here in the United States have to be better trained, better skilled, more competitive, leaner, meaner.
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Leaner, meaner times are exacerbating traditional forms of discrimination too.
In 1948, however, austerity was rather more austere: there was a fuel shortage, strikes, mass homelessness and even meaner rationing than there had been during the second world war.
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We have agreed to a series of spending cuts that will make the government leaner, meaner, more effective, more efficient, and give taxpayers a greater bang for their buck.
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Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
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Among the top 100, notable beneficiaries of leaner and meaner strategies include electronics manufacturers Matsushita Electric (profits up 636% on sales down 4.5%) and Sharp Corp. (No. 54, profits up fivefold on sales up 6.3%).
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