Word: thinly
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...girl, what mattered after delivering the baby was cloaking her latest humiliation in a thin veil of dignity. On the way to school, she reportedly told a friend, "There's been a rumor that I'm pregnant, but I'm not," and invited the girl to feel her tender stomach. "She refused to admit that she had given birth once she lost the baby," a friend of the family said. "It was as if she could not comprehend it." Her teachers didn't help: though she had faithfully attended classes, they say they never realized she was pregnant...
Although Yeltsin holds support by only a thin margin in the 1,068-seat parliament, his position was strengthened three weeks ago by a question he inserted into the national referendum. Seventy percent of those who voted said yes to his idea of a popularly elected President, for which he would be the clear favorite. Last week's rally, for which plans had been announced even before the referendum, would burnish his image still further...
...former colleagues at M.I.T. owe O'Toole an apology, if not a job. And like other scientists currently facing critical scrutiny -- including AIDS researcher Robert Gallo and cold-fusion gurus Martin Fleischmann and B. Stanley Pons -- they owe it to themselves to take a close look at their thin-skinned response. Making mistakes is part of science. But blindly denying the possibility of error goes against the heart of the scientific method. Baltimore seems to have worried more about a colleague's reputation than about the truth of a junior researcher's complaint. In the end, he damaged not just...
...wide swath through U.S. industry, from executives to waitresses. And in most cases, no laws are broken. The problem is especially acute in service industries, where employees meet the public. According to Esther Rothblum, a psychology professor at the University of Vermont, "If two people, one fat and one thin, walk into a company with the same qualifications, the heavier one will get a more negative reception...
Yeltsin is impulsive and can be downright cavalier in personal relations. The carpet outside his presidential office in the Byely Dom (literally, White House), the Russian Supreme Soviet building on the Moscow River, must have been worn thin by the pacing of visitors who never got to see him at the appointed hour. Yet Yeltsin genuinely loves people and thrives on contact with them. Says he: "If I don't meet with people for a time, I start getting nervous...