Word: thinning
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...many in the U.S., including in the halls of government, patience with the Saudis is running thin. "More and more people are saying, 'It's time to sit on the Saudis; it's time to hit them hard,'" says a State Department official. Frank Gaffney, a conservative foreign-policy analyst, has some ideas on how to do that: "You put them on notice that this kind of behavior is completely unacceptable. You can break off diplomatic relations, you can impose economic sanctions, and you have, ultimately, the option of seizing the oil fields militarily if you have...
...small niceties still count. With their resources stretched thin, senior managers often fail to write a simple thank-you note to an employee for a job well done, says Vijayaraghavan, a consultant with Katzenbach Partners in New York City. She has found that "managers are so busy putting out fires, they don't talk to their middle reports for a year." And when better jobs appear elsewhere, they may no longer be talking to them at all. --With reporting by Laura Locke/San Francisco
Unfortunately, Crook’s 14 years of coaching experience cannot produce two solid blockers from out of thin...
Just look at what happened. Our troops have been spread dangerously thin, American allies everywhere have been alienated. And real threats, such as al Qaeda, North Korea and the Taliban have been ignored. And perhaps most recklessly of all, Bush has blunted America’s ability to utilize the threat of force by rendering it meaningless. Like a prosecutor trying a murder suspect, Bush asked Saddam for a plea bargain—cooperate with U.N. inspectors, and we might not invade. But even after Saddam admitted the inspectors and Chief U.N. Weapons Inspector Hans Blix begged for more time...
Wulfsberg had previously told The Crimson that meeting Hornstine’s request of $2.7 million would have stretched the school board’s resources thin...