At a roundtable with reporters on Thursday, Toshiba's chief executive, Norio Sasaki, wielded an inch-thick proposal outlining the dismantlement plan submitted to the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, this month.
Those folks came with two-inch-thick proposals and flew people in to give presentations.
At my engineering office, I began writing inch-thick reports, proposals and lengthy letters; consequently, I became infatuated with language, seduced by its power to organize my thoughts, argue a point or create a persona.
Romney must walk a fine line while criticizing Perry's lack of specific plans so far on the issue; Romney has laid out principles and endorsed some basic ideas for Social Security reform, but he has not yet released a proposal thick with details.
Last year a governmental commission headed by Shlomo Dovrat, a businessman, produced a thick dossier of proposals.
"I have a folder that is several inches thick of wonderful proposals and offers from this country and all over the world," Mr. Barnett said.
The White House is out with a thick stack of proposals for spreading Internet access far and wide, and for speeding up the Web in places where competition is still lacking.
The SDGs are, at the moment, proposals in thick documents.
After Mr. Bush's inauguration as president, he sent Congress a thick packet of education proposals to guide the law's 2001 rewriting, titled No Child Left Behind.
He proposed a new uniform for the emerging Tank Corps, featuring polished buttons, a gold helmet, and thick, dark padded suits; the proposal was derided in the media as "the Green Hornet," and was rejected by the Army.
