Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there an innocent with faint dreams of being a writer and I slid out a quivering lump that grew queasy at the sight of a pencil. I wasn't alone in my shame--others in my section and in other sections found their illusions of talent dissolved into thin...
Despite their reputation for invincibility, Japanese companies do not win every competitive battle they enter. After five years of effort, Sumitomo Electric Industries has captured only 1% of the U.S. market for optical fibers, the hair-thin glass strands used in high-capacity telecommunications. Now even that meager market share is endangered...
...remember images of abject poverty in this the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Thin people leading thinner cows down the roads. Malnourished children eating toasted ears of corn on the sidewalk. And all of this across the street from a presidential palace the size of the Jefferson Memorial...
...change. But how? We don't know." Water vapor, for example, is yet another greenhouse gas, but the white-gray surfaces of clouds reflect solar energy. Which effect predominates? Answer: it depends on the cloud. The bright, low-level stratocumulus clouds reflect 60% of incoming solar rays. But long, thin monsoon clouds let solar heat in while preventing infrared radiation from escaping...
shell: the proper name for a thin boat, which holds one, two, four and eight rowers and perhaps a coxswain...