Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Struggling with the Mile-High City's "thin" air as well as the nation's top 240 collegiate distance runners. Sullivan and Newnham battled to 47th and 59th places, respectively...
...altitude was my biggest concern going into the meet, coach Robert "Pappy" Hunt said yesterday. "The girls started well--both were among the top 40 at the one-mile mark--but the thin air took its toll during the second and third miles...
...Uganda's Idi Amin than to more responsible leaders, and usually pays more attention to scandals and disasters than to complex social and economic stories. Yet those complaints can also be made about the West's coverage of its own affairs. If Western reporting about the developing world is thin, that may be because news follows the realities of world power; Washington and Moscow are more newsworthy capitals than, say, Lagos and Lima, especially to Western readers. Indeed, Third World news outlets are as parochial as their Western counterparts; a 1975 State Department study of Latin American newspapers showed that...
...dollar's decline was accelerated by hard-headed investors, primarily corporations and banks, that have been hedging their positions in money markets. "The line between hedging and speculation is pretty thin," says Whitman. Yet she believes that corporate moneymen will rush to buy dollars as soon as they become convinced that the U.S will stick to a clear-cut economic policy. In Whitman's view, the Administration's dollar-revival plan consists of one Band-Aid and one magic bullet. The move to big intervention-selling gold, buying dollars-will barely patch a scratch. But the shift...
Benedict estimates that it costs $300 an acre to raise sugar beets. At an average yield of 15 tons an acre, and a depressed price this year of around $21 a ton, the typical beet grower will receive $315 an acre, producing a thin profit in view of the heavy investment required. But Benedict's mechanization and tight management enable him to grow 20 tons an acre, worth $420, enough to promise a worthwhile return...