Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...researchers now have two theories about how the disease spread. The first suspect is a traditional medical practice in Rumania of injecting minute quantities of adult blood into young babies who look thin or anemic. Part of this blood supply, some of which is imported, could have been contaminated. The other likely pathway for infection is the reuse of dirty needles. As in most East European countries, disposable syringes are in short supply, and hospital staff members are often poorly trained in sterilizing techniques...
...campaigned to both the East and West coasts that year.) The reader does not really ask these questions, because the narrative moves with such cheerful confidence that doubt does not arise. But a couple of advantages work powerfully in favor of the author's device. Fowler, having a thin time of it in the 20th century, is plunked into a situation in which his only problems are day-to-day adventures. His lifting of mood coincides with that of the reader, whose cynicism about sports drops away as these 19th century men delightedly play their boys' game. Fowler, moreover...
...field of optical computing faded into relative obscurity, but it was revived in 1986 by a breakthrough at AT&T Bell Labs. Research scientist David Miller developed the world's tiniest optical switch, a thin chip that in its latest version measures no more than 10 micrometers (0.00004 in.) on a side. Made of advanced synthetic materials, the device can turn on and off a billion times a second without overheating...
...professor's office in the bowels of Widener is the easy part; it can be a whole lot trickier making it to the other side of the wooden door. The standard procedure among tenured professors is to allot but one office hour per week to undergraduates; sometimes, this thin slice of time is shared by graduate students as well. Even worse, professors often don't mention this office hour and their office location in class--much less advertise them...
...disqualification erased any pretense, which was already wearing thin, that the upcoming vote, the first multiparty election in Burma since 1960, would be legitimate. At least 2,000 government critics have been arrested since July...