Word: thinly
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NICK CHARLES THE THIN...
Soon, my novelty wore thin, and they returned to their conversation. The cool green bottles became exclamation points—but what provoked them, I didn’t know. I would never get my story without the right questions. The right questions were in Vietnamese...
...Arizona Public Service Company shut down two aging hydropower plants that no longer produced much electricity and opened the gates of a small diversion dam that for nearly a century had shunted water away from Arizona's Fossil Creek, a spring-fed tributary of the Verde River. As a thin ribbon of water trickled through, Dr. Robin Silver of the Center for Biological Diversity cheered. "In four to five years, the whole face of this stream will change," he predicted. Among other things, Silver expects young cottonwoods to take root along the banks and native fish like speckled dace, roundtail...
...people; it's people who arbitrate the application of the rules so that interpersonal relations proceed smoothly, unimpeded by the law. It's a culture that has stunted the development of strong institutions. The legal system that we have, the voluminous regulations and procedures: all these form a thin veneer of a state that seems to resemble those in the West. But beneath lies a complex web of fixers and power brokers, go-betweens and patrons, geared to make things happen?whether negotiating a business deal or tax settlement, bringing government projects to a district, or, it would seem, adding...
...explosives. The confidential Aegis report guessed that each weighed just 5 lbs., small enough to place in a small rucksack. The bombs, police said, were placed on the floor of the train cars. In the case of the bus, shortly after the explosion a TIME reporter saw a tall, thin man in a black pinstripe suit telling police officers, "I think I saw something," and mentioning a man with a rucksack, before the witness was whisked away. Later, passengers told the press they had seen a young man on the bus playing with a bag before the bomb went...