In thin years, diners value their wallets over their palates.
But the Asian firms need all their cash in these thin years to pay their bondholders and bankers.
This time we won't screw it up".Yet the pressure to make up for 15 thin years is strong.
After the Soviet Union fell, only four remained inside Russia proper, and those quickly crumbled into disrepair in the thin years of the 1990s.
Having stuck with John Duffield through the thick and thin years of his financial company, Hudson benefited when it was taken over by the German money giant Commerzbank.
But it means that public services have had three very thin years, obliging false economies to be made, followed now by four very fat ones, causing money to be wasted.
"As we know, Walter's success came after several thin years," wrote John J. McCloy, a banker from Greenwich who described himself and his wife, Laura, as the Noels' "best friends for more than 30 years," in May in a letter recommending the Noels to membership in a private club.
No team's attendance is less tied to its on the field performance than the Rangers', and nowhere else in the country do fans peel off at a slower rate when the club has thin years.
