Word: thinnest
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This push and pull between restraint and indulgence is not just Bloomberg’s story: It’s the story of New York City. Manhattan may be New York State’s thinnest county, but the culinary temptations are everywhere. Countless pizza places leave the door open for the smell of fresh bread to waft outside, as thick slices with countless toppings sit on display. In Times Square, bright flashing ads of M&Ms bombard tourists as they gape upward, extra-large sodas in hand...
...attention. Tickets to Lions' home games, at the 65,000-seat Ford Field in downtown Detroit, are practically given away. The roughly 40,800 people who showed up on Sept. 27 comprised one of the smallest crowds ever to watch a football game there - and reportedly one of the thinnest to attend a Lions home game in 20 years. The game wasn't even televised here: the NFL blocks local television stations from showing home games if tickets aren't sold out at least 72 hours before the kickoff. (Read the Detroit Blog...
...other glossies. While ex-staffers say Lipman's background in newspapers afforded her little understanding of how much high-end magazine journalism costs, Condé Nast chairman S.I. Newhouse Jr. stuck by her a month past the April issue, which at 106 pages was reputed to be the thinnest his company had ever published. The magazine relied on advertisers from the finance, corporate-branding, car, travel and luxury-goods industries, all hard hit in this recession, and it never became a must...
...Zetas act as the enforcement wing of the Gulf Cartel and extort payments from anyone who moves narcotics through their territories. The Oaxaca coast, where Cobo joined, is strategically important in trafficking routes of cocaine from Colombia to the United States. It is also the thinnest point between the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico. "The Gulf Cartel controls the drug trade along the Gulf of Mexico and dominates the movement of drugs into this country primarily through Texas," said Michele M. Leonhart, Acting Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in a recent statement. "They are known, even among...
...steadily appreciating renminbi (RMB) currency - which makes Chinese goods more expensive in key export markets like the U.S. - as well as higher costs embedded in a new labor law enacted last year were already wreaking havoc with companies that survived even in the best of times on the thinnest of profit margins. Now, with a global recession gathering pace, the best of times are gone, and the pain in what had been booming areas in southern China is spreading quickly. Fully half of China's toy exporters, which sent nearly $8 billion worth of Barbies and Thomas the Tank Engines...