Sentence examples for leaner operation from inspiring English sources

"Honestly," Mr. Richards said, "we have a leaner operation".

The leaner operation will give Alcatel-Lucent traction as the market improves, he said.

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The run-up in oil prices before the war in Iraq was regarded as beneficial to CNOOC, a leaner operation focused on exploration and production.

But referring to what she said was a leaner operation, she added, "That makes you lose sight that in fact the institution is much stronger, and the programming is lively and interesting".

Now she is committed to running a leaner operation with fewer stores, located in more strategic locations.

Other airlines emerged from bankruptcy with leaner operations.

Driven by leaner operations and higher demand, profits are rising.

Measured by costs per available seat-kilometre, American Airlines and United run significantly leaner operations than their international rivals.

Battered by a weak economy, the nation's biggest banks are cutting jobs, consolidating businesses and scrambling for new sources of income in anticipation of a fundamentally altered financial landscape requiring leaner operations.

But Japan's system of cross-shareholding, in which financial institutions own shares in their borrowers and companies hold stakes in their suppliers, and vice versa, gives shareholders little incentive to push for higher profitability and leaner operations.