Twenty-four implants (7.0 mm long and 3.5 mm in diameter; Cowellmedi Co., Busan, Korea) were made of pure titanium and designed with a straight section on their upper 3 mm and broad threads on their lower 4 mm.
Three broad threads can be discerned in the literature: and listed in approximate, if overlapping, chronological order, they are continuing education (1960s onwards), the promotion of teamwork (late 1970s onwards) and more recently, the development of quality and evidence based health care.
Possibly as a result, the book is a bit uneven, dwelling too long on particular stories at Medtronic and losing the broader thread of the author's argument.
Donations to Mother Teresa's charitable efforts would also reflect a broader thread in Mr. Hanssen's life, his devotion to the Catholic Church.
reviewing (unpacking the relationship between themes; discerning a broader thread) 5.
Mark di Suvero's untitled ink drawing from 1983 is smaller in size but even more dazzling: its broad black slashes threaded with silver seem to leap off the sheet.
And then, of course, mobility, sewage, water supply, and infrastructure in the broadest sense becomes the thread that binds it all together as a functioning whole.
But alongside these broad, imperfect efforts, Shipler threads a glowing filament: the telling acts of kindness, so often just small offerings, that lift both giver and receiver.
The Gianinetti ranch was a curious mash-up of bucolic and urban, a broad patch of meadows threaded with two miles of spring-fed creeks, hard by the Roaring Fork River and busy Highway 82.
It flows into Aurlandfjord, itself no slouch in the beauty division - green water, towering wooded cliffs, crags, geological ramparts, buttresses and rounded towers, picturesque little shore-side villages clambering up the hills, snowy summits, scores of waterfalls, some narrow silvery threads, others broad thundering cataracts, under one of which the Bergen ferry now stops for a photo op.
