Word: thins
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...reasons vary for this poor record. Many community-college students must juggle responsibilities, like supporting families, that trouble comparatively few university freshmen. But more often the blame can be placed on the colleges themselves for stretching their resources too thin and neglecting serious students. Some schools are open seven days and nights a week, serving as walk-in educational shopping centers; they offer little counseling to students planning to pursue a four-year degree. Most community colleges do not even coordinate course requirements with the universities that accept their graduates. Thus many transfer students are dismayed to discover, after completing...
...Monet helped carry his coffin to the grave. In life, his milieu had included nearly every French artist of significance, along with writers of the stature of Charles Baudelaire and Stéphane Mallarmé; the latter called him "goat-footed, a virile innocence in beige overcoat, beard and thin blond hair graying with wit." Dressed to the nines, Manet was celebrated as a dandy in that city of dandies, Paris. To read his friends and admirers, you would suppose that he never uttered a pompous word. His sense of measure, corrected by self-doubt, found expression in a sweet...
Senator Paul Laxalt is general chairman of the Republican Party, a thin disguise for assembling Reagan's re-election machinery. Laxalt was asked if the President had given him firm word. Nope, confessed Laxalt, he had acted because of "the look in the President's eye." Analyzing presidential eyes could keep the guessing game going until Thanksgiving...
...comprehension for citizens who like to think of themselves as solid. Everest's weather is as foul and unpredictable as any in the world, the avalanches of its snow fields and the icefalls of its tumbled glaciers pick off climbers every expedition or so, and the deadly thin air toward its 29,028-ft. summit debilitates and stupefies the mountaineers it does not sicken or cripple. What craziness is this to be serious about...
...test, called chorionic villi sampling (CVS), is a painless procedure and can be done in a physician's office as early as the fifth week of pregnancy. To perform it, the obstetrician inserts a long thin tube through the vagina into the uterus. A second doctor, following the procedure on an ultrasound monitor, helps the obstetrician position the catheter between the lining of the uterus and the chorion, a layer of tissue that surrounds the embryo during the first two months and later develops into the placenta. The goal is to suction up a sample of the chorionic villi...