Yet the latter can be useful, particularly when the former are still rather thin on the ground.
Many app-oriented startups use design to mask the fact that what they are doing with data is actually rather thin.
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Its homegrown pipeline of new drugs is rather thin, and competition to fill these gaps with drugs from biotech firms is fierce.
Mr Obama's visible domestic successes have been rather thin on the ground.
An almost religious meditation on the persistence of guilt and memory, and the desire for forgiveness, the drama uses a rather thin plot to tread across established O'Neill themes.
The problem is that while shipping the stuff that we buy on eBay ( EBAY) or order from Amazon.com ( AMZN) helps increase volumes, margins on those transactions tend to be rather thin.
The secret: Use fat, short, straight pipes rather than thin, long, crooked ones.
But the answer is not the Charles Ferguson impulse to restrict VCs. (He'd rather behead a few to thin the ranks.) Rather, it is to open up the doors to the world.
It look s a bit like a waffle, with transistors connected by tall, thin silicon fins rather than flat surfaces.
Silicon photonics is a new approach to using light (photons) to move huge amounts of data at very high speeds with extremely low power over a thin optical fiber rather than using electrical signals over a copper cable.
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"The earliest enamel crystals form in extremely long, thin ribbons and are rather beautifully parallel, " Fincham notes.
So, automakers should imagine how to put themselves smack in the middle of all the value in the car market, rather than building cars on razor-thin margins while letting others reap most of the profits.
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SoloPower makes thin-film solar cells but rather than package them into a rigid panel, its solar collectors are flexible strips.
Flying high in the earth's atmosphere, where the air is thin, is, he says, rather like flying near the surface of Mars.
There you are talking about fines rather than taxes, but the distinction is often pretty thin.
The only real highlight here is perhaps the 2, 000mAh battery, which is non-removable but still rather impressive considering it's in a 6.55mm-thin body.
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The Archos G9 Android-based tablet computers contain Momentus Thin (7 mm thick) hard disk drives from Seagate Technology rather than flash memory for long term storage.
When bad weather forces airlines to thin flight schedules, regional airlines get whacked first because carriers would rather used limited landing slots for larger airplanes with more people.
Truly creative entrepreneurs are thin on the ground and, when they do appear, too many choose to migrate to America rather than stay at home.
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