Word: thinning
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Today automakers are grateful for the add-ons. Intense global competition and falling prices have made overall profit margins on new-car sales razor thin. Options, on the other hand, provide carmakers with profit margins up to 50%. Sell enough $2,000 navigation systems, and you're talking serious money...
Khairurrazi Ismail always believed he would die young. He was right. The thin, sickly, 18-year-old's corpse was lowered last week into a muddy trench in a village cemetery in Peusangan, in the north of the Indonesian province of Aceh. But it wasn't sickness that stole his life. Khairurrazi was beaten, bayoneted and shot to death by Indonesian soldiers. "Half his skull was blown off," weeps his mother Ramla. "I had to pick up my poor boy's brains and put them back in his head...
When Renée Watkins ’53 first arrived at Radcliffe, she says she found a campus populated with thin, blonde-haired women born and bred in sophisticated circles...
...directions. - By Jennie James Under Pressure Moody's may cut the A3 rating on David "Bowie Bonds" - which the rock star sold for $55 million six years ago, backed by future royalties. Moody's blamed the global music-sales slump, but may have just had another listen to the Thin White Duke's Tin Machine...
...comically gigantic gibbous nose. Riel himself starts out rather normal in scale but after his enlightenment becomes huge, like the Hulk in a wool suit. In the final issue, Brown cites Harold Gray's "Little Orphan Annie" as a major influence, and the comparison is dead on. From the thin, uniformly weighted pen lines right down to the circles for eyes, Brown has updated Gray's technique to tell a true adventure...