Word: thin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While she said she does not want to see young models out of a job, Byron urged that the modeling industry needs a broader spectrum of women to represent the gamut of fashion consumers. She said the industry is unrealistic, primarily using "younger, taller, pencil-thin models" like Crawford...
Over the years theorists have come up with many competing notions about the identity of dark matter. The candidates have included various kinds of subatomic particles, many of which aren't even known to exist; black holes; and even long, thin strings of pure energy left over from the Big Bang. Large planets or dim stars -- known as MACHOs (massive compact halo objects) -- are by far the most mundane of the solutions to the puzzle. They're also the least popular: theorists think there should be just enough dark matter to stop the universe's expansion without reversing...
Forming the backbone of the HSDN are tens ofthousands of feet of fiber optic cables,ultra-thin glass wires which transmit digital datain the form of laser-generated light. "Fiber isthe only vehicle that will support us for the longhaul," says Holmes...
...changes into the 239-page draft that was widely leaked two weeks ago. One sample: to reassure women's groups, the Administration put obstetricians and gynecologists with the "primary-care physicians" whose numbers it wants to swell, rather than with the "specialists" whose ranks it intends to thin. Magaziner expects to make about as many more changes in each of the three or four remaining weeks between Clinton's speech and the submission of a "last and final" draft bill to Congress...
...thin ray of hope for peace glowed as Bosnia's beleaguered Muslims signed separate cease-fire agreements with Croatia and with the Bosnian Serbs. If the truces hold, all three parties may soon be signing a peace accord that would partition the former Yugoslav republic into a confederation of three ethnic zones. The agreement, if ratified, would allow any of the three enclaves to withdraw from the confederation after two years...