101.   McCarty remembered the lean years when the Hurricanes moved from Hartford, Connecticut, and had to play two seasons in Greensboro while the Raleigh arena was being built.

102.   The charge to cover the recall assures a second quarter loss in what is already shaping up as a lean year.

103.   The family business has survived other lean years when commodity prices nose-dived.

104.   They sense in Ossis an innocence, an ability to make do with little, that reminds them of their own lean years after they lost the war.