Glee, even if thinly veiled, could be discerned in much of the reporting, especially in places where anti-American sentiment runs deepest.
It came amid fears services are spread too thinly and could collapse because of rising demand and severe staff shortages.
He hopes that at least half will be successful and generate 25% of Cisco's revenues within five to ten years.Some on Wall Street worry that Mr Chambers, who has been Cisco's boss for 14 years, is stretching his company so thinly that it could be ripped apart.
But trying to move 3,000 or even 1,000 shares of a thinly traded ETF could widen its spread.
The chilling effect on press freedoms posed by such undertakings, especially for thinly capitalized publications, couldn't be clearer.
"Houses were shut tight, and cloth wedged around doors and windows, but the dust came in so thinly that it could not be seen in the air, and it settled like pollen on the chairs and tables, on the dishes," wrote John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath.
It was not clear how much help Taunus's thinly capitalized global parent could or would provide.
The beats touched on the late-70's staples of punk, funk, disco and dub reggae, while the instrumental tones could be thinly focused or brutally distorted.
When bankers came around selling big structured products like collateralized debt obligations, he refused to bite because CDOs were so thinly traded that they couldn't be unloaded easily.
Perhaps then, the thinly veiled "environment" argument could be lifted, and "eminent domain" threats would subside long enough for a real dialogue to take place about why opposition to Soka University really exists.
