Word: thinner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then. Our work is parsed by press critics; we get into contretemps with the powerful; we serve as filler for the growing number of gossip columns. All this is, in principle, legitimate. Those who groan reflexively when needled or critiqued simply confirm the aphorism about journalistic skins being thinner than the average American adult's. What stokes my personal I.L. is the frequency of error in these items. The venerable practice of checking ostensible facts with the story's subject seems to be declining...
...market has climbed from 15% in 1979 to 25% today. "It's not that tough technologically, but we'll need some lead time," said a Japanese auto-company official. He added that the new standards would raise sticker prices "only marginally" because Japanese firms typically rely on thinner profit margins than their U.S. counterparts...
Police said the intruders were armed with firebombs, tear gas and steel bars. Yonhap, the South Korean news agency, said the protesters also carried paint thinner and what it described as a crude homemade explosive...
...storebought prints--one is of flowers in a flowerpot and hangs above a primitive, impressionistic crepe-paper poster also resembling a flowerpot. Distorted. Things often get distorted, like the self-images of healthy women and girls, women who think they would be worthier if only they were thinner or if they ate less or purged more...
...calculations per second into a tight octagonal package 32 in. across, the size of a small coffee table. The computer's basic building blocks are 4-in. by 4-in. modules each bejeweled with 1,024 chips and threaded with more than a million interconnects of braided gold wire thinner than a hair...