Word: thinness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...discipline is doubly impressive because staging conditions are spotty. In Baltimore, for example, the newly poured ice was thin and brittle: in rehearsal, Boitano's skates broke through to the concrete beneath. The length and configuration of the ice vary from show to show, as do locations of entrances and exits and placement of key lighting elements...
...method is disarmingly simple. Doctors spread a thin layer of the ointment over the wounded area with a tongue depressor and keep the skin completely covered until it heals. So far, the treatment has been used on 50,000 burn patients in China and on several hundred elsewhere. Xu and colleagues traveled to Thailand last month to help treat victims of a gas explosion in Bangkok. In the U.S. the doctor has won converts at the New Jersey-based National Burn Victim Foundation. Xu, 32, who comes from a family of herbal-medicine specialists, will not reveal the ointment...
...Russian proverb, it should be: When skating on thin ice, move quickly. Like Gail Sheehy, who has learned some fast footwork and slick maneuvers during her career as a New Journalist and pop psychologist. Her biography of the Soviet leader marks Sheehy's debut as a pop political scientist...
...same time, though, merchants are protecting their perilously thin profit margins by cutting expenses, especially inventory costs. Macy's, which was swept up in the price-cutting panic among big stores last Christmas when it found itself more than 10% overstocked, is carrying about $640 million less inventory this year. Orders of U.S.-made apparel are down 8% industry-wide this season, while in Hong Kong clothing manufacturers report a flurry of canceled and curtailed orders from big U.S. stores...
...Crimson was especially strong in the fly and backstroke events, taking advantage of the thin Columbia and Navy squads to dominate these events...