Word: thins
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...make about $120,000 a year, behind the controls of the planes, but American chairman Robert Crandall wants to use $35,000-a-year American Eagle pilots. "This plane makes a route such as Pocatello, Idaho to Dallas profitable," says Gwynne. "They're ideal for so-called 'long-thin' routes." Gwynne says some analysts believe that hundreds of the new planes may be in the air in the next few years, taking traffic away from the big-city hubs and jobs away from the pilots who fly there. American management is pushing the pilots to accept binding arbitration, but that...
Becker described "widespread cultural forces to be thin" in the U.S. and said that because Americans are becoming increasingly overweight, the ideal of thinness "is increasingly unattainable...
That dance begins at around the third week of gestation, when a thin layer of cells in the developing embryo performs an origami-like trick, folding inward to give rise to a fluid-filled cylinder known as the neural tube. As cells in the neural tube proliferate at the astonishing rate of 250,000 a minute, the brain and spinal cord assemble themselves in a series of tightly choreographed steps. Nature is the dominant partner during this phase of development, but nurture plays a vital supportive role. Changes in the environment of the womb--whether caused by maternal malnutrition, drug...
...orchestra and various music groups were, on the whole, extremely impressive. BSO director Seiji Ozawa has excellent technique and an outstanding memory, as demonstrated by his conducting the entire Te Deum without score. The percussion section seemed especially good, but the violins sounded on the thin side, perhaps a result of the stage acoustics. Overall, the orchestra had a warm and inviting sound, more melodious than precise. Tenor John Alers did a superb job of projecting over the orchestra during his solos, though his voice was lost in the blast of the women's choir -- from the Tangle-wood Festival...
Yesterday's aggro and shock, today's museum relic. "Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York," curated by Francis Naumann and Beth Venn and now running at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art, is an interesting show of what is, ultimately, a spiky but fairly thin subject. Dadaism--its name made of baby-talk syllables, its intent to disorient bourgeois expectations of culture by any means possible--was a short-lived but fecund movement born and raised in Europe in the century's teens. It was more like a tiny religion than an art event, with a proselytizing...