"I wasn't sure that I was willing to take the risk of spending many years applying for grants and working long hours for the very slim chance of winning at the roulette table and making a significant contribution to the scientific literature," he said.
Running a bunch of servers with access to on-demand compute, it turns out, is a pretty efficient business that can account for the very slim margins that Amazon has on the rest of its core business.
"Our margin for error is very slim," Battier said.
That this is not an idle concern is borne out by the fact that more students from India are coming to earn an undergraduate degree, for which the possibility of receiving financial aid or scholarships for non-residents is very slim when compared with graduate school, where research and teaching assistantships are more common.
For example, I'm very slim due to my diet.
"I'm sad to say I think the chances are very slim for getting it through," Ms. Collins acknowledged an interview after the vote.
Of course I didn't want her to suffer through miscarriages, as I had, or to start IVF, with its expense, uncertainty and statistical odds so very slim for a woman my age, 42.
Now, their chances for gold medal are very slim".' Lost in the aftermath was that a victory by Finland over the Americans in the next game would have enabled the Soviets to capture the gold medal.
"Opportunities in New York City for young artists are very slim, almost nonexistent, because of real estate prices, economic pressure, inflation, and whatnot," Bui says.
And that public defender or that court appointed attorney will likely have dozens, if not more than a hundred other cases, and the odds of that attorney spending any significant time for you before your hearing or before your trial, to gather evidence or question witnesses or do any of the kind of basic preliminaries that would be necessary for adequate representation, are very slim.
