Then they have to pay high prices to buy food for themselves during the "lean season,"

VOA: special.2009.11.17

Lean Kha was a soldier with the communist Khmer Rouge in the early 1980s and admits he killed wildlife for food and trade, including 14 tigers.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

"I saw all these ships waiting out there,I am guessing, waiting their turns to load and unload the cargo, so,I said,Why do the ships come into the harbor?" Why not have the harbor go out there and bring the goods in?'" Researchers describe the mobile harbor as a lean, light system for unloading container ships even if the coastal area is too shallow for them to dock.

VOA: standard.2010.01.04