Pay is also rising after the relatively lean years of 2002 and 2003, executive recruiters say.
The early taste for deal-making stuck with Blixseth through his lean years as a songwriter.
The Bank of England's Governor has talked of seven lean years for the economy.
Mastodon, which came together in Atlanta during metal's commercially lean years, unapologetically embrace the genre's grandiose beginnings.
Over the past three decades, Britain has tended to suffer more than most in the lean years.
Despite Adler's success, he said he still remembers the lean years at the start of his career.
The best time to buy into the IPO market was during the lean years of the last decade.
And good for Bill Clinton and a presidency in need of a foreign-policy success after seven lean years.
After several lean years, the economic cycle has swung back in Germany's favour.
Having lived through the lean years, many holidaymakers are now used to cheaper vacations that are closer to home.
Yet the lean years helped to stop the city's historic buildings being replaced by the concrete utopias beloved of modernist planners.
Still, they appear capricious, raising their target after a period of strong stockmarket returns and lowering it during the lean years.
The current era rather resembles the biblical dream of seven lean years.
Some concerns were almost biblical, the cycles of fat and lean years.
It then took a slight dip during the lean years of 2002 to 2004, but has been growing steadily since, along with payroll.
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IILG, however, has been solidly profitable even in the lean years, and EPS has been rising year to year for the last three quarters.
Three European blue-chip companies boosted their proposed dividend payouts, signaling a growing desire to use cash reserves to woo investors after several lean years.
Despite some bumps in the road (notably some lean years in the mid-1980s and the Pentium chip bug in 1994), Moore and Noyce have never looked back.
The 40-year-old has endured some lean years following a knee injury but two wins on the PGA Tour this season suggest he may yet add to his major tally.
But Harvard stayed financially healthy during the lean years of the Depression partly by enlarging its undergraduate student body--two dynamic presidents during that period, A. Lawrence Lowell and James B.
More and more companies have started paying out in past years a way to reward investors for the lean years during the financial crisis and scant potential among fixed-income products drove up the valuation on those stocks.
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"We recognise that we are now in the midst of an economic crisis which will leave a legacy of austerity in public finances and lean years in public finances for years and years to come, " he said.
Furthermore, since new mines can take as long as a decade to develop, mining executives say, and since firms made few investments during the lean years of the 1980s and 1990s, supply could take a long time to catch up with demand.
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And, at the end of an era at Knowsley Road, he could not be blamed if he already had one eye on Bradford next season - and how to fatten up some hungry Bulls after a couple of lean years at Odsal.
"We have embraced the concept of lean working for many years now, " she said.
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Given all of that, Camp said, it could be that companies that have gotten and stayed lean over the last several years now have a more optimistic outlook.
After ten fat years, some lean ones are in store.
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The failure is that, ten years after the lean times began, no government has introduced the sort of broad reforms that are needed to take the economy out of intensive care.
Plus, in your later years, you can lean on them like they leaned on you.
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