Holding sold the premium product as a way to make a little extra in the thin-margined business of gasoline sales.

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Such a thin layer alters the current flow in a way that reduces the current's susceptibility to magnetic interference.

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In the same way that wafer-thin tech and telecom firms became massively valued, whopping price tags were slapped on intangible media assets - and companies are now having to pay for that carelessness.

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In the 1990s, they combined thin-film coating techniques with getter technology for the LHC and that paved the way for the solar panel applications we see today at the Geneva International Airport.

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Lant Pritchett, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard, sees his work consulting for Google.org's initiative to better inform and empower poor people in developing nations as "a thin end of the wedge" that will improve the way money already allocated for the poor is spent.

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There is no way in the world that we will be walking around with a clear, super-thin flexible display that doubles as a holographic device.

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