Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...huge military force is well equipped, but stretched thin...
Western analysts are not so confident. Like the P.L.A., Hanoi's forces are stretched thin, with 200,000 troops in Cambodia and 40,000 in Laos. Preoccupied with the threat from the north, the Vietnamese have replaced seasoned troops in Cambodia with raw draftees from South Viet Nam. Numerous desertions from Vietnamese army ranks in Cambodia suggest that morale is low among Southern recruits, who lack enthusiasm for Hanoi's cause...
...cases of severe chronic pain, a highly sophisticated variant of such stimulators can be embedded in the body itself. The technique has been used since 1974 by Neurosurgeon Yoshio Ho-sobuchi of the University of California in San Francisco. He implants one to three hair-thin electrodes in the brain or spine; these wires lead to a small radio-activated electrical source placed just under the skin of the chest. To get relief from pain, the patient presses a small radio transmitter against the chest. The transmitter's signal activates the little power plant, which promptly shoots a tiny...
...avalanche of mismanagement still follows on Carter's heels and could engulf us any moment. But his eight-day display of determination and adroit maneuver has added a lustrous footnote to the pages of his thin volume of leadership success. Nothing more, or less...
MEDIUM SHOT: The road, a thin white (should we? yes) ribbon sprinting toward the horizon...