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Hooten, a College Pro painter, had used the van since May to transport paint and ladders. There was no paint thinner or other combustible materials in the van when it caught fire, he said. Hooten estimated the value of the van and its contents...
...time? The 1940s. The place? Hollywood--the lavishly decadent capital of the movie industry, where the line between striking it rich and bankruptcy is thinner than the film in a reel...
...year you thought you signed up for -- they will begin trying to renew you. (When I did my taxes last year, I discovered I'd paid my annual public-television dues three times.) Renewal notices don't require buying the name (they own you already) and tend to be thinner on party favors, but they usually are personalized, which is expensive. They might cost 40 cents each. And it would not be unusual to send out ten of these before writing you off as a deserter. That's four bucks...
...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...