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Photos from the summer show a much meaner and leaner Doncic than the one that ended last season.

The job-shedding will further shrink the industry’s rank and file after a yearslong diet of layoffs, attrition and corporate restructuring that has made Big Oil much leaner.

Even for executives who want to look like they are sharing employees’ sacrifice during leaner times, the jet is one thing they won’t compromise.

"There's nothing to negotiate. There's nothing we can pull out of this bill to make it any leaner or cleaner than it is," Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said.

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But there’s still an element of camp and goofy humor that lingers, taking away from the script’s leaner, meaner elements.

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