In a speech on March 20th, Mr Bernanke analysed reasons why yields might be so thin.
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You can only spread yourself so thin before your work product (and health and interpersonal relationships) suffers.
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Are margins so thin at the regionals that adding two dollars' worth of seat foam would destroy profits?
But farmers say they cannot raise pay much when margins are so thin and supermarket contracts so short-term.
The crescent was so thin, we could imagine what annularity was like easily even if we didn't see it.
But the insurers' capital base is now so thin that they may not be able to pay any claims.
When resources are stretched so thin, private firms plug some of the gap.
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So thin is trading that on some days many contracts trade as few as 20 Hedgelets or none at all.
But by making its phones so thin and its margins so thick, Apple actually has somewhere to go and still be viable.
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"To our viewers who supported us through thick and thin - sometimes so thin we almost fell through, we say thank you, " he said.
Sometimes cattle get so thin that they have to be slaughtered.
Buyers and sellers in Manila have established a price, but because its commercial-property market is so thin, some analysts fear it is not the right one.
That is partly because the market has become so thin that they are hard to price, but also, presumably, because their true values are so frightening.
Mrs Appleton warned that anyone venturing up on the roof would be risking their life because it had been left so thin they could fall through it.
But the sparse mostly Inuit populations dotted along the coastline find that ice floes are often so thin that hunters can no longer use dog sledges, reports say.
It will also be tricky to find builders who can work well at such altitudes (few people can do hard manual labour where the air is so thin).
He and his team of 24 graduate students are the world's leaders in building "nanowires, " whiskers of semiconductors so thin you could bundle 20 million inside a strand of 2-lb.
In perhaps as little as a decade, the circuits will be so thin that the phenomenon known as quantum tunneling, where electrons slip through the silicon walls, will make further progress impossible.
The air is so thin that the first glimmer of sun can throw it into violent convection, lofting up into towering thermals, twisting into dust devils, and collapsing back down as they cool.
And by the same token, police officers can't - I don't believe should be so thin-skinned as to allow someone to get them to do something that they perhaps would not have done.
Robert Thompson, neighborhood captain for a watch group in Roswell, New Mexico, said that with police so busy and resources stretched so thin, members know they have to be vigilant when they patrol their neighborhood.
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The material, so thin it effectively has just two dimensions, was first isolated by two Russian-born scientists, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, at the University of Manchester, work that earned them a Nobel Prize and knighthoods.
My father, so thin and athletic, looked almost frail with shock, while my mother, whose beauty was still remarkable, and who was known on the reservation for her silence and reserve, had left off her characteristic gravity.
The devices are so thin that close-contact forces called van der Waals interactions dominate the adhesion at the molecular level, so the electronic tattoos adhere to the skin without any glues and stay in place for hours.
At one of the many boutique hotels that have popped up in Barcelona of late--one this writer tried after staying at the Grand Marina--the walls were so thin that every sound from a next-door neighbor could be heard.
It would also greatly reduce energy costs, since reverse osmosis involves forcing water through filters to remove minerals, and the Perforene filter is so thin that much less pressure is required (graphene is a thousand times stronger than steel).
Washing with Castile soap and icy water, he worried over his scrawniness, his spindle shins, the green yarns of vein in his forearms, his face so thin that his zygomatic bones and jaw shaped harps underneath his ginger-brown, one-inch beard and mustache.
Our atmosphere is so very thin, and we're changing its mixture of gases with our activities.
But his ability to indulge the way he does while remaining so strikingly thin makes him a physiological wonder.
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