Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they were investing in cattle futures. "We understand it's just business, but it's still awfully demeaning," says Deb Donaldson, a part-time retail sales clerk in Moline, Illinois. Manpower's Fromstein dismisses such complaints of exploitation, pointing out that his own profit margins are razor thin (1.3%). Says he: "We are not exploiting people. We are not setting the fees. The market is. We are matching people with demands. What would our workers be doing without us? Unemployment lines? Welfare? Suicide...
...economic plan, especially the short-term stimulus package. The White House response has been muted because the Clinton camp wants neither to alienate Perot by bickering with him nor to puff up his ego by trying to address his complaints. But its tolerance of Perot's opinions is wearing thin. Last week George Stephanopoulos, Clinton's communication's director, called Perot "a good sound-biter" who lacks a cohesive program of his own. For now at least, Perot has assumed the role of opposition spokesman, in part because the Republicans were so slow to respond effectively to Clinton's program...
...small as the individual boss. In the new economy, geography dissolves, the highways are electronic. Even Wall Street no longer has a reason to be on Wall Street. Companies become concepts and in their dematerialization, become strangely conscienceless. And jobs are almost as susceptible as electrons to vanishing into thin...
Yesterday's show inaugurated a series of "Beverly Hills" episodes in which Kelly, played by actress Jennifer Garth, is obsessed with making herself thin by taking diet pills...
Radiologists can often solve the problem. Using their skill with X-ray imaging to guide them, they make a needle puncture into a vein in the groin and thread a very thin tube to the testes. The doctors then seal off the varicose veins with coils or chemicals that are sent through the tube. Johns Hopkins researchers reported that of 71 couples in which the man had had the procedure and his partner no infertility treatment, 60% of the women got pregnant...