Flexibility and leanness mostly benefit the firm's owners.
Liberals prided themselves on the leanness of a state that ruled India with a few thousand bureaucrats.
For example, Nicolas Sarkozy, the ambitious mayor of Neuilly, Paris's wealthiest suburb; or Philippe Douste-Blazy, mayor of Toulouse and somewhat Cassius-like in his leanness; or, most intellectually brilliant of them all, Alain Juppé, the mayor of Bordeaux and President Chirac's first prime minister, from 1995 to 1997.
Others that literary leanness mirrors the stale political culture that is prevalent in a country where Jacques Chirac has been in politics for nearly 40 years.What stir is caused by other writers, besides Mr Houellebecq, is thin.
In contrast, African children had lots of bacterial species associated with leanness, and a higher proportion of microbes known to produce beneficial chemicals called short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs).
Four, in particular, stand out:Leanness.
The general condition of the body is of value in diagnosing diseases that cause excessive leanness (emaciation), including certain cancers, or other chronic diseases, such as a deficiency in the output of the adrenal glands or tuberculosis.
But it is precisely its leanness and the tight focus of its storytelling that make it such a tense thriller.
Wasson, 27, hails from the Lone Star State, although her rough-dried, dirty-blonde waves and nonchalant leanness speak more of California, which she has since ' made her home.
Although leanness is generally a good thing in business, too much cost-cutting turns out to be a bad strategy, not only for workers and customers but also for businesses themselves.
