Their firm, which has 2, 000 employees, does not have child sick-leave provisions and she feels she and her husband have worn their employer's goodwill thin already.

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She's a woman who just skims the surface of life, preferring a thin facade to introspection.

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Then, too, by responding with borderline hysteria to Olmert's statement, Rice has demonstrated, once again, that she remains a thin-skinned whiner.

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"It's as though they disappeared into thin air in broad daylight, " she said.

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