Word: thinning
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...future of Stephen Spielberg's Minority Report, televisions and computers have been replaced by transparent screens on which life-size images appear to be floating in thin air. Watching Tom Cruise operate this fictional technology, David Lauren, Vice President of Ralph Lauren, was inspired to develop similar screens, but with a retail spin - his version would be implanted behind a store's glass window and would be touch sensitive, allowing window shoppers to interactively browse through Lauren merchandise and purchase what they saw using a built in credit-card swiper. The first of these screens was inaugurated on August...
...Until now analysts such as John Murphy at Merrill, Lynch have complained that the Way Forward plan didn't seem to have the urgency required to meet the challenges facing the company, while J.D. Power's Schuster says the company's product portfolio is too thin. Ford had announced July it lost $254 million in the second quarter, and the production cuts are certain to drive the company deeper into the red. Some reports have even suggested that the company could lose anywhere from $5 billion and $7 billion...
...which means "welcome home, brother"--when talking to African Americans. Just fake the sincerity, in other words. (It works in the U.S., doesn't it?) Obetsebi-Lamptey says the new measure isn't just about investment but also about healing old wounds. But not all African Americans are so thin skinned. "It is not derogatory. It's more like foreigner," says Blanche Agyemang, who owns a bakery in Accra. "Wherever you go, unfortunately, you're going to be a foreigner if you're not a native of that place...
...Wiretapping Ruling Is Vulnerable Even opponents of President Bush's surveillance program have to be dismayed by Judge Taylor's thin legal reasoning
...Taylor's opinion is remarkably thin on legal reasoning, leaving it vulnerable to getting reversed by the generally conservative Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Worse, the opinion's provocative, almost dismissive, language gives weight to criticism that this decision was more about politics than...