leaner

If I avoid looking into a mirror and take a bite, I am my nineteen year old self — sun bleached locks framing my face, leaner and more muscular — always somewhere close to a water’s edge.

California native plants, on the other hand, prefer leaner and much dryer soils.

The layoffs are part of a larger plan to cut costs and create a “leaner, faster, and more agile organization,” Jordan said at the time.

“It’s definitely leaner now. I don’t have the resources I had to stockpile a warehouse filled with wine to get me through.”

The promised benefit — a leaner, less costly and more efficient federal government — is purely theoretical at this stage.