Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech to the nation last week on the events in Beirut and Grenada. But he did not address the question that assertion raises at the most basic level: Has the nation taken on worldwide commitments for the potential use of force that its military power currently is stretched too thin to fulfill...
...parole status at a sentencing hearing. All of which proves Kunen doesn't need a top partnership to be a sleaze. If Kunen dispels the popular myth that public defenders are somehow more ethical than higher priced lawyers, he only adds to the impression that they simply got the thin envelope from law schools that would offer them more than a shot at defending indigents...
...Knowlton stressed that the new Center should be careful "not to spread itself too thin. We don't want to get involved in too many issues per se, but rather focus on the process of collaboration itself," he said...
...thin book, just 114 pages long and studded with mathematical symbols, but it addressed one of the deepest and most nagging problems in economics Titled Theory of Value, the 1959 work made its author Gerard Debreu a revered figure among his colleagues. Last week the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences extended Debreu's fame far beyond such professional confines. The academy announced that it was awarding the 1983 Nobel Prize in Economics to Debreu, 62, for three decades of distinguished achievement. The French-born professor of economics and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, a U.S. citizen...
...patience with the movie wore thin as the plot carries Toby out of the arms of the 40 year-old husband and into an infirmary bed at university Health Services...