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Example sentences for: lean

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And that's particularly true when the concept of the lean and mean corporation has attained the status of dogma.
Retailer managers are relying less and less on their “gut” and past experience; lean retailers are increasingly using more sophisticated statistical models, even in the risky realm of nonreplenishables, to help guide stocking decisions.
Each of you probably has your own point of view on how well the system works to keep the Postal Service lean and efficient.
The Lean Retailing Alternative
but you lean forward and confide in me as when you arrived once at some finely wrought conclusion in the old days that now what interests you most of all is birdsong you have a plan to take some birds with you