"It looks like the company is becoming lean and mean."

But the company's payroll is lean and mean at 100 workers.

"The young tigers are talking about how we want to get lean and mean."

So one answer is to tighten up, get lean and mean.

It's just what everyone has been saying, that the private sector is lean and mean.

He'd been a bartender there during his lean and mean years.

After four months, he was back to wearing his new lean and mean wardrobe.

But in the lean and mean 90's, that didn't save him from losing his job.

"You have to become lean and mean to stay afloat."

We're taking advantage of our small size to do something lean and mean."

Industry claims it must be lean and mean to survive in today's global competition.

He liked Church the way he was, lean and mean.

When we first met, Ryan was lean and mean.

Here is something that is fun to say: Lean and mean.

"Others are selling themselves as clients, telling people that they're lean and mean.

"Over the past several years they've become leaner and meaner," he says.

"We gave out 900 dismissal slips," said Green, who runs his business lean and mean.

We have had to run lean and mean.

The concert wasn't a comeback but a return from hibernation, lean and mean.

"Retailers are very conscious of being lean and mean."

The trend will continue in 1992, mostly due to downsizing by companies increasing their efforts to become lean and mean.

He is betting on those lean and mean corporations to do well, thus creating enough new jobs to improve the nation's mood.

"We're lean and mean at the moment," she said.

She had meant to be stripped for action, lean and mean, no entangling alliances.

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