They were right to press the panic button, however, not least since health care costs for obese people are substantially higher than for slimmer citizens at a time when budgets are under intense pressures.
Of all the expected changes in the buyout environment, the biggest is already the most evident: deals will slim down substantially, largely because of the disappearance of cheap debt.
For cluster 3, GO slim terms were substantially different than clusters 1, 2, or 4. Specifically, the major GO slim terms for biological processes associated with cluster 3 were "response to stress", "protein metabolic process", "signal transduction", and "electron transport", and the major GO slim terms for molecular function were "hydrolase activity", "protein binding", and "nucleotide binding".
The likelihood that attitudes towards marriage equality have changed substantially in the past two years seems slim, indicating that there may be more at work.
All they report on their website is the data showing "No Bounce For Obama from Overseas Trip," but question #3 in the poll (pdf here), shows Obama's slim lead increases substantially with her on the ticket.
And if and when rates rise more substantially, bond investors will be stuck with not only slim yields, but also losses on their principal.
Their weight may have varied substantially due to fat cycles, meaning that individuals were fat during cool seasons, but slim during hot seasons, and may have been as low as 21 kg in males and 13 kg in females.
"It would be nice if prices did come down quite substantially," said Francisco Blanch, head of commodity strategy at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, who added that the chances were slim.
BP bucked the trend, making a slim gain despite expectations that a strengthening tropical storm heading for the Gulf could substantially impact attempts to recover oil spewing from its leaking well.
