The argument that walls were too thin got a boost from a recently presented analysis by John Kastelein of University Hospital Center in the Netherlands, the lead investigator of ENHANCE.
But spreading ourselves too thin too often creates a dilution effect in our strength and time, and limits our ability to build what we care about most.
An overly thick exterior will easily overwhelm the filling within, while a too thin shell will not maintain the structure of the bonbon if the centre is very soft.
At a thickness of as little as half a millimeter, a production LCD could easily be thin enough for a mobile device, too.
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But the line between too little and too much government involvement is a thin one.
Increased executive workloads "are unsustainable" because employers have stretched their leaders too thin for too long, concluded a majority of 153 U.S. recruiters polled in late May by ExecuNet, a job-search network for executives.
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The prospect of sitting at a desk (probably in front of a computer), with only a thin partition separating you from a sea colleagues is sometimes too much to bear.
"He is spreading himself too thin, " says Courtney Leddy, a vice president with Ketch um Sports Network.
Adding yet another pursuit, in this case lacing up his Nikes and running, sounds like a recipe for being stretched too thin.
It also should be pulling in rocks that get too close, gravitationally pulverising them into a thin disc that gradually and continually dopes the remnant atmosphere with silicon.
In 2002 Rumsfeld, irritated by Shinseki's insistence that American troops were stretched too thin around the world, had made Shinseki a lame-duck Army chief of staff by announcing his successor while Shinseki had more than a year left to serve.
The company was called a basket-case, spread too thin, terrible employee morale, unfocused.
Cincinnati cardiologist Evan Stein, one of the coauthors of the ENHANCE paper and a big proponent of the too-thin argument, reiterated it in an editorial that appears alongside SANDS in the cardiology journal.
Blankenship has kept Massey focused stubbornly on Central Appalachia, where a century of digging has left seams mostly too short and thin to mine profitably at current prices.
There may come a day when the company decides that it has spread itself too thin and decided to consolidate.
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It flies too fast to be hand-launched, so it ejects out of a thin tube with collapsible legs that a soldier can set up in an instant.
"We are spread far too thin fighting crime, terrorism and the effects of this disaster, " Lynch said in a statement.
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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.
With its thin margins and ballooning size, Merck-Medco may have just been too much of a drag on Merck's share price and a distraction from Merck's core business of producing blockbuster drugs.
"We are spread far too thin fighting crime, terrorism and the effects of this disaster, " Mr. Lynch said in a statement.
This, too, is significant because the "scarring" tissue that naturally forms after a heart attack is thin and can get stretched in ways that alter the shape of the heart.
More likely, it is simply a sign of the sheer weight of money moving in and out of markets that are still too thin to bear it comfortably.
Denton is tall and rangy, and has a famously large head that sits precariously on a thin neck and narrow shoulders, leaving the impression of an evolved brain that is perhaps a little too conscious of its pedestrian context.
Moyes admitted at the weekend that his squad was too thin to improve on their fifth place finish last season and there could be further arrivals with Nigeria striker Victor Obinna a target.
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