Word: thin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Glendening apparently beat Republican Ellen Sauerbrey by 5,405 votes with all but about 500 overseas votes tallied. (His lieutenant governor will be Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the late Robert Kennedy's oldest daughter.) In Alaska, Democrat Tony Knowles led Republican Jim Campbell by just 77 votes -- an edge so thin state officials may demand a recount. But 1994's Squeaker of the Year may go to a Connecticut House race, in which Democratic Rep. Sam Gejdenson was declared the winner today by just four votes.Post your opinion on theElection '94bulletin board...
...began ambushing Serb forces at 16 different locations around the country. Instead of the frontal assaults that foundered against the Serbs' superior firepower, says U.N. spokesman Paul Risley in Zagreb, the Bosnians "are employing commando tactics to grab territory." The breadth of the government offensive has exposed how thin the Serb defenses are: reinforcements dispatched to the Bihac region came from Kupres, for example, leaving it largely undefended...
...Ireland, chasing Rhett, making a fortune in real estate, succoring rebel peasants and raising a child. Predictably a postfeminist heroine, she is self-sufficient and sexually assertive yet at the same time sweetly vulnerable. Ultimately, she gets her man, all the while remaining kind, politically concerned and mesmerizingly thin...
...much interest in what is, after all, only a slice of thin air? Because that thin air has been set aside to create "personal communication ! services" that may someday connect everybody to everybody else -- like the phone system does today, but without those constricting telephone wires. Through streams of digital data, PCS providers could deliver all kinds of exotic services, from smart cars that call for help when they've been stolen to vending machines that order their own refills. They could be the foundation for a wireless electronic-mail network -- a kind of information highway of the airwaves -- through...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Battling for a Slice of Thin...