Word: shallowing
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...graduates of liberal arts colleges and Business School students, we kind Mr. Ginn's comments to be shallow, inaccurate and condescending...
...analysis is shallow in that he fails to identify the very different job markets in which B.A.'s and M.B.A.'s compete...
Much of that spilling occurred in U.S. waters. One reason is that the East Coast and Gulf ports are shallow and cannot accommodate the biggest and most modern tankers. The result is that much of the U.S.'s oil imports are supplied by a motley collection of smaller tankers that are often old, ill-equipped and indifferently manned. The U.S.'s daily consumption of foreign oil equals the capacity of 35 Argo Merchant-size tankers. With so much tanker traffic -an average of 30,000 arrivals a year -accidents are inevitable. By the Coast Guard's reckoning...
...when a vessel that was empty a few hours before has up to 200,000 tons of oil suddenly poured aboard under rapid loading conditions. At some discharge ports, very big ships can dock only at high tide. Delays can mean the ship sits on her bottom plates in shallow water before the draft can be lightened sufficiently. Such structural strains are repeated and severe, and, coupled with the tremendous rate of corrosion, they shorten the life of the vessels and constantly weaken them...
...characters are not presented as uniformly sympathetic, though the actors are all superb. Marguerite, who runs the organic farm, is dressed always in black, witch-like, and her care for the farm is stronger than her love for the others Mathilde, an earthmother figure, is a little shallow she massages away others' worries but never quite interacts with them. But for the most part, they are wonderfully human, and their idiosyncrasies become strangely endearing. Perhaps the nicest character is that of Marie, a tousled blonde supermarket checker who blithely undercharges anyone she feels has been cheated by the system...