Party Animals A big part of that heritage is, of course, Carnival, the explosion of parties, balls and parades that swirls through New Orleans just before Lent every year, ending on Fat Tuesday, the day before the lean days begin.
Looks out for old baseball cronies now having lean days, such as Amos Rusie, Dan Brouthers and Henry Fabian.
To be sure, Mr. Pandit has gone through some lean days, at least by Wall Street standards.
Commissioner Valentine's staff, on the other hand, gets along with homemade apparatus because the Police Department's budget is too skimpy these lean days to include fancy models.
Less Money for Science: Lean days are ahead for recipients of federal government contracts, and that knowledge is having an impact on physics research.
"More MBM pre-season fare to keep us live commentary junkies going in these lean days when we have to content ourselves with cricket, tennis, golf and cycling before proper football returns.
The problem is not Bouley's ambition — any neighborhood is lucky to have an infusion of capital, and charcuterie, in these lean days — but, rather, that he seems to be rejiggering his holdings with greater haste than heed.
It was an easy decision after the lean days of the Depression: Mr. Broussard leased the land to the company for 75 years, at a rent of $1,600 annually (an amount later renegotiated to $110,000 a year).
While initial BP payments and a strong fall and winter helped, some business owners are still carrying around bad credit ratings from those lean days, or paying off loans, or working under franchise agreements that were renegotiated to their disadvantage.
