They live and breathe, grow lean, brown and disputatious in this novel, and yet they are only a fraction of the story.
As the city continues to achieve critical mass, you may see it emerge as a model for how institutional capital is allocated among young, viable startups and a template for how startups grow lean and efficiently.
The company expects demand to return as those inventories grow leaner.
As the impact of Wall Street's distress ripples out, economists expect opportunities to grow leaner still.
Eleven of them, representing about half of the nation's movie screens, have filed for bankruptcy protection as they struggle to reorganize and grow leaner.
Speed and reliability of shipping enabled just-in-time production, which in turn allowed firms to grow leaner and more responsive to markets as even distant suppliers could now provide wares quickly and on schedule.
CNH plans to expand production of smaller tractors in India and China as farms there grow, leaner local production of bigger tractors might supplant imports from places such as Basildon.As in Britain's booming car industry, Basildon's 1,000 workers excel at assembling the finished machine.
In the famous phrase of the Russian historian Vassily Klyuchevsky, "the state swelled up, the people grew lean".
And some of us, impaled by dismay, had repeated at that moment the words of Dorothy Parker: "Lady, lady, better run!" But since then, taut and tutored, lacquer-bright, Diana had grown lean, refined, like a stripped-down slander machine, and what we expected was the high-gloss flirtatiousness of the media queen: with perhaps a well-managed tear or two.
As the Roman poet Horace wrote, "The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor".
In this community, if people see you growing lean, they will start pointing hands and saying things, so if you people let the people know that what they were talking of is true, it will bring problems to us [the family].
