Word: thins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subject's creamy profile against a blue-green background. Yet the layering of the image is so delicate and transparent that body slips into background and chemise slips into body. In "Seated Nude (Madeleine)," Picasso goes even further, playing with both line and plane to describe form. He uses thin black lines to distinguish her rust legs from a background of the same color, while only a mottled cream plane indicates the surface of her chest and breasts...
According to Acklin, the suspect is a thin man, about five feet, 10 inches tall, with short, cropped hair and a dark complexion...
...second problem was more subtle: a wire that is .25 microns wide is so small that once you've built it, you can't touch it. So instead of trying to unroll tiny wires onto silicon chips, microprocessor engineers laid down a thin sheet of metal and etched away everything they didn't want. What was left were microscopic paths of metal just wide enough to carry a current. But while chipmakers had developed any number of ways to etch aluminum, no one had yet figured out how to etch copper. Doing that, IBM suspected, would require inventing a whole...
...still no strong evidence that Gore knew where the money was headed ? or that the calls themselves might be illegal. "Unless something new comes up, I don't see much likelihood that this will lead to an independent counsel," he says. "No prosecutor would try a case as thin as this. The only reason is that she's a Clinton appointee. She might turn it over just to be above suspicion." Which could conceivably wind up vindicating Gore in the long run. But for a White House whose scandals seem to last forever, no long run could possibly be short...
...frantically tried to keep him breathing. When Seaman bent down to get closer, a swarm of mosquitoes descended on her ankles and arms in an African feeding frenzy. Ignoring her own discomfort, she prepared an IV, but the boy's blood pressure was so low and his arms so thin that she could not find a vein...