The theory is that the company is stretched too thin.

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But he dismisses claims that Mr. Schneider is the spitting image of the general, saying that his rival's face is too thin to represent the older Napoleon.

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But this, they say, means that money is stretched too thin and projects left unfinished.

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Perhaps a bigger obstacle is French composers' reputation for writing music that is too thin, too light and too much in the head: all tweeter, so to speak, and no woofer.

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