Word: thins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year ago Sachs became the director of Harvard's newly formed Center for International Development (CID), which is more research-oriented than HIID and its consulting operation. Sachs said heading up HIID and CID, along with his other duties at the University, were spreading him too thin...
...came in during a thunderstorm just before midnight Tuesday, and the rain-slicked runway just wasn't long enough. The twin-engine Super MD-80 outran 7,200 feet of asphalt, careened past an access road and whipped around a metal tower that peeled back the plane's thin shell on the left side, said one passenger, "like a sardine can." Then the spilled fuel caught fire, and the race to get out was on. Of 139 passengers and six crew members on board, 80 people were injured and taken to hospitals. Fifty-one others did not require hospital treatment...
...attempt to trade for a living. The opportunities for short-term profits in the stock market, given the new wild swings we have seen, can't be dismissed as unworthy or foolish. That hasn't been true for most of this 17-year bull market, when only wacky, thin, corrupt or heavily shorted stocks jumped enough to make a short-term triumph possible. And for most of that period, commissions were so high that they ate into those gains for all but the biggest traders, who got discounts from their brokerage firms...
Cross a mist-shrouded mountain pasture pitted with craters, past four dead horses eviscerated by scavengers, over a trampled barbed wire fence and you are in Kosovo. A thin trail leads down through light green scrub oak to a rutted dirt road, which in turn winds deeper into the cleft of a narrow valley. The mighty crash of 110-mm mortar rounds resounds from the hillsides, interspersed with the delicate crack of Kalashnikov rifles. Wisps of munitions smoke mix with the low mountain clouds spreading over the Dukadjin plains in the distance. About a mile and a half in stands...
...patch of white"--brighter, he says, than any of the snow or rocks around it. Sprawled facedown on the mountainside, with arms outstretched and hands dug into the frozen ground, lay the bleached, mummified remains of a man. It was Mallory, his body almost perfectly preserved in the thin, dry air, a safety rope around his waist, and still partly clad in remnants of his tattered cotton, wool and tweed climbing clothes, the ragged collars stitched with markings G.L. MALLORY. He had apparently tumbled wildly down the slope, tried to arrest his descent with his hands, then died shortly thereafter...