Word: leanings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the day he first set foot onto the "strawberry patch" in Shea Stadium's right field, with the long, lean frame of Ted Williams and the prodigious speed of a young Mantle, the man with the fruitiest name in the game was the ultimate baseball hero...
...first solo album, Illmatic (1994), was a rap classic--lean, smart and at times jazzy. His new album, I Am... (Columbia), aims even higher: the songs are grander, more aggressive, more cinematic. Several top pop performers stop by for duets, including Puff Daddy (on the booming Hate Me Now), hip-hop-soul singer Aaliyah (on the ballad You Won't See Me Tonight) and gangsta rapper DMX (on the rough-riding Life Is What You Make...
...diversify immediately. Remember, your most valuable asset--your career--is also tied to the health of your firm. If you're over age 55, your employer may allow you to sell some of its stock held in your 401(k), so be sure to ask. In your taxable accounts, lean toward diversified mutual funds, or individual stocks in at least six industries--and avoid the one in which you work. If you are concentrated in a single stock in a taxable account--and are not wealthy enough to join a swap fund--you'll have to pay capital-gains...
Pratt says market forces have made Yale University Press lean toward trade books, but not at the cost of academic monographs...
...blue overcoat, walked around the block and, coming back to the Court, stopped to listen to the picketers who gathered daily to protest abortion, some carrying signs that accused him of mass murder. He had respect and compassion for them. They never noticed him, the small lean bespectacled man with gray hair; his humility shielded him. Then he walked up the steps under the EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW inscription, went in to his office and resumed reading the law, which was his work...