Word: thinning
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...face value and to make it as easy as possible for each other to back off from positions we often never wish to represent. It perplexes me to watch students seem to have a thick skin for the utter neglect some professors and people in power show them and thin skin for the unintended wounds peers who take them seriously cause...
...minx who enjoyed slap and tickle and a good time. In contrast to the icy blondness of her sister-in-law Diana, the fun lover all of Britain came to know as Fergie was made up of earth colors and earthy views, promising a shot of red blood into thin royal veins. "She is the best thing in my life," Andrew often told friends, while his bride openly gushed, "I love his wit, his charm, his looks. I worship...
...wildly inflated values of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Japan's frenzied real estate market. Now both those markets have collapsed. And with long-term interest rates up from 5% to 7%, Japanese companies are less able to sell vast quantities of high-quality goods at razor-thin profit margins. Added to this are pressures from shareholders for a greater return on investments, from Japan's trading partners for restraints on its aggressive trade practices, and from its own citizens for a reduction in their working hours so they can enjoy the fruits of 40 years of relentless toil...
Arnesen's departure will weaken the already thin ranks of Americanists, a problem many in the department and undergraduate concentrators are impatient for the department to remedy...
Whatever the outcome, the voice of the South will be heard more clearly than in 1988. Candidates were forced that year to spread themselves so thin over such a wide area that few Southern concerns were addressed in detail...