Indeed, it would be impossible not to enjoy the butter-soft leather, wood veneers and inch-thick carpeting inside.
His top administrator totes around a nearly three-inch-thick binder of charter-school regulations and bylaws that he must comply with.
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The illusion quickly disappears, however, when you inspect it from the sides and behold the machine's substantial, 1.96-inch-thick chassis.
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Also, you wouldn't find the same, noise-canceling half-inch-thick glass polished with the same pumice used to sharpen observatory telescopes.
To get beyond Eggleston's Freudian couch, swine also need a 2-inch-thick layer of exterior fat along the belly and back.
Engineers put the vehicle's guts in an 11-inch-thick platform that contains the fuel cells, electric motors, brakes, suspension and hydrogen storage.
Dealing with this, while holding on to the two-inch-thick axle, required an awkward grip: one hand over and the other hand under.
Kahn started out in college as a botany major, but gave up when he saw the three-inch-thick textbooks filled with Latin names.
From the inch-thick brogues of the actors to the neon signs on the walls of the barroom set, it's as convincing as a deathbed confession.
Geeks will be more intrigued by Dell's new 0.9-inch-thick laptop weighing just a bit less than four pounds and available in black, white or red.
That's the upside to the rounded edges, of course, but for a 1.3-pound, 0.31-inch-thick device, the 101 is reassuringly sturdy (and hefty, we might add).
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He next bisected an inch-thick rope, then set his sights on three water bottles, stacked about 6 inches apart, which he had to cut vertically.
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The SoftBook is also much larger than the Rocket EBook: About the size of an inch-thick stack of letter paper, it weighs a hefty 3 pounds.
The 0.15-inch-thick windbreaker is as warm as a goose down jacket 1.6 inches thick, says Champion parent Hanesbrands, which is considering a jacket for the retail market.
Surprisingly, even though it's classified as an Ultrabook, it manages to make room for an optical drive -- impressive, given its 0.81-inch-thick chassis is still relatively slender.
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Dr. Glanzer used a different technique in the Rockies: A wood frame supports a 1.5-inch-thick facade of fake stone colored and chemically distressed to give the illusion of age.
His group based its plans on a 2-inch-thick report produced in 1988, derived from a mammoth six-month effort involving 20-minute surveys with 8, 000 customers as they exited 16 Lowe's stores.
At Republican headquarters two blocks from the state Capitol, Mr. Munisteri, the Republican chairman, keeps an 8-inch-thick binder on his desk stuffed with polling data on Hispanic attitudes toward his party.
Both this and the 15-inch version measure 0.81 inches thick, which is on par with Dell's XPS 14 and the 0.82-inch-thick Samsung Series 5, which also makes room for a DVD burner.
Put simply, Lenovo's slate appears as if it'd be heavy, but actually surprises with a slim 0.34-inch-thick (8.69mm) chassis weighing 1.28 pounds (580g) -- a package more compact than the TF300, which measures 0.38 inches thick and weighs 1.39 pounds.
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It was always the same: a great wedge of papaya with limes, a crisp thin omelette with green chilis mixed in, two slices of inch-thick white-bread toast, a dollop of red jelly and of margarine, and a pot of coffee with milk.
The new Exilim Card EX-S10 (pictured) manages to pack a full 10 megapixels, 3X optical zoom, a 2.7-inch LCD, and stereo microphones into its 1-inch thick frame -- which means we're a little curious as to how noisy that sensor is, since it can't be very big.
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As for specs, there's nothing too incredibly surprising here, but Toshiba did manage to squeeze dual 2.4-inch drive bays into the 6 pound, 1.47-inch thick laptop, which is a bit of a feat in itself.
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Pentax lines up most of the same specs for its Optio M30, even including that off-the-chain -- and we're sure incredibly grainy -- 3200 ISO, but instead of a touchscreen, this M30 concentrates on a 0.7-inch thick aluminum body and a fancy auto-macro mode for spiffing up those closeups.
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Compared to the 2.5-inch-thin Lenovo ThinkCentre 91z, which actually makes that claim, it's 4.1-inch thick shell is chunky, though no more so than a small television.
Gigabyte's latest entry into that crowded arena has just swung by the FCC, raising the likelihood of US availability while also showing off its 11.6-inch, 1, 366 x 768 pivoting touchscreen wedded to a 21mm-thick (0.8-inch) chassis with a chiclet keyboard and large touchpad.
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Thus, the three- to six-foot concrete walls with 3-inch thick steel reinforcements, depending on design.
The company produces bullet-resistant quarter-inch thick Kevlar padding tough enough to withstand the most extreme sports blows.
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It's far thinner and flatter -- now 0.3-inches at its thinnest, compared to the 0.5-inch thick 500.
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Of course, the 1.6-pound tablet is not as thin and light as a the 0.34-inch thick iPad, either.
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