Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there be an undiscovered reason for ozone to vanish over temperate zones as well? Maybe so. On Jan. 12 the ER-2 swooped south instead of north. Says Anderson: "We discovered to our shock that there was ClO all the way down to the Caribbean." It was a very thin layer with concentrations of only 0.1 part per billion -- but this was much higher than anyone had predicted...
This doesn't mean that investors should rush to put their nest eggs into Zimbabwean stocks. The risk to a hard-currency investor of losing on conversion what has been won in local currency is only one of the hazards. All markets fluctuate, but small exotic markets, often thin and subject to political instability, are apt to fluctuate more. Nonetheless, sophisticated investors and their brokers cannot ignore the opportunities provided by the extraordinary diversity of market performance. Nowadays there is always money to be made somewhere in the world...
Director Blake Edwards is right in tune with human nature and its potential for being mocked. His camera captures the murky underside of Parisian middle-class existence as well as the maddening, busy life of Hong Kong's spaghetti-thin streets. As usual, Sellers is athletic and absolutely absorbing as Clouseau, and Herbert Lom is wholly nutty and pop-eyed as the mad chief of police...
...Olympics they will be on thin ice once again. Last month the Duchesnays withdrew from the European championships after Paul suffered a flare-up of an old groin injury. The default neither jeopardized the Duchesnays' berth on the French team nor presaged a no-show in Albertville -- "We will be there if we have to crawl," Isabelle assures. But it cost them a valuable opportunity to preview their new long program, an intricate dance choreographed by Dean and set to music from West Side Story. A routine that relies on such familiar strains is unlikely to meet with the resistance...
Sideburns, In the 1950s they were rebelious and sexy--personified by James Dean and a thin pelvic-thrusting Elvis. In the 1970s they were big, ugly and decidedly mainstream, personified by the Four Men living All Together of the Brady Bunch and a fat, bloated, drugged-out Elvis. Now, like The King reappearing in an Iowa McDonald's they have come back to haunt us--maybe...