Word: thinning
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...testing a mailable reader, a very thin, hard box about the size of a large postcard. We could mail that to you to put on your TV, and you could mail it back. It would be an efficient way of collecting information. We're testing it among employees, and we'll have a market test with clients this summer. We've had an ongoing test with Arbitron [which does ratings research for radio] for a device called a PPM [portable people meter]. It looks like a little pager, and you wear it, and it would allow us to measure television...
...court only had eight members, these razor-thin rulings would be a thing of the past. A 5-3 ruling might be more resounding—and potentially less divisive—than a single-vote margin. Alternately, a 4-4 tie would send the case back to lower courts—either to the states or the federal circuits...
...basis for “The New World”—at least once, in the endearingly simple Disney movie featuring the voice of Mel Gibson as a kind-yet-heroic John Smith.Now Terrence F. Malick’s ’65 (“The Thin Red Line”) “The New World” has brought Pocahontas to theaters once more, and though the film is meant to appeal to moviegoers of all ages, it seems especially apt for a generation that grew up humming “Colors of the Wind...
...Bush, do you know where I am?" Zawahiri taunts in his broadcast, in which he appears thin but relaxed, sitting without his customary Kalashnikov rifle in front of a curtain of black. He responds to his own question, saying, "I am among the Muslim masses." He could be speaking figuratively, meaning that while circumstances require him to lay low, he enjoys popular support. But he could well be speaking literally, in effect bragging that despite the relentless manhunt, he is able to move around in Muslim circles, "enjoying God's blessing...
...exhibit for the first time what she calls her "inseparable bowls," the ceramic clusters and trails for which she is now justly famous. "I like what happens to more than one," she said at the time. "Volume changes into line, as our eye perambulates. Interior colors float from thin rims, making an echo...