Word: thin
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...million, threatens to expand further as enterprises come to the end of the interim period during which they had to keep underemployed workers on their payrolls. Some economists warn that half of the 8.5 million workers in the East could lose their jobs. Patience in the East is wearing thin: violence, including some directed against the small number of foreigners in the area, has been growing sharply...
...ponytail of the past, held back with an elastic band, has been joined by plaits, queues and thin, razor-cut hanks of eccentric design. Gary Margolis, 45, director of a counseling center at Vermont's Middlebury College, believes that hair has once again become a font of Zen expressionism: "How you wear your hair speaks of the inner self." The message may be simpler. For many men, it may just be "I don't have to put up with haircuts anymore." The tyke who protested when he was first lifted into a barber's chair may be the ponytailed...
...Kennedy School, which has not hired a minority faculty member in the past five years, has also had difficulty creating faculty mentors and implementing race-blind hiring policies. He attributed the problem to a candidate pool that he said was "remarkably thin on minorities." policies, Carnesale said. He attributed the problem to a candidate pool that he said was "remarkably thin on minorities...
Then, suddenly (and immediately after a series of domestic debacles), Bush turned his back on all that "new" stuff. Declaring that his patience was wearing thin, he doubled the number of U.S. troops in the Gulf and railroaded through the United Nations Security Council a resolution authorizing the use of force...
...same time, though, merchants are protecting their perilously thin profit margins by cutting expenses, especially inventory costs. Macy's, which was swept up in the price-cutting panic among big stores last Christmas when it found itself more than 10% overstocked, is carrying about $640 million less inventory this year. Orders of U.S.-made apparel are down 8% industry-wide this season, while in Hong Kong clothing manufacturers report a flurry of canceled and curtailed orders from big U.S. stores...