And for an industry that tends to move cyclically with the economy, the latest projections could bring some thin ice.
You see, it wasn't so long ago my boyhood favorites the Blackhawks were skating on (insert "thin ice" cliche here).
For an unelected prime minister, Mr Monti was skating on thin ice.
Rival sports paper AS is also predicting that Pellegrini is on thin ice: "One more defeat will cost Pellegrini his job, " it claimed.
Critics point out that most of the best-known terror convictions have been plea-bargains a hint, they say, that the government is on thin ice legally.
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Much has already been made of the fact that Upton is a departure from the stick thin ice beauties that have lately dominated the catwalks.
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Don't we all deserve more from the seemingly infinite media echo chamber of alarmism than those windy speculations, snow jobs and projections established on theoretical thin ice?
In a dictionary that Christopher Koonooka translated from Yupik to English, there are words describing wavy ice, shore fast ice, small cakes of ice, and thin ice overlapped like shingles.
"I feel as if I am walking on thin ice, " he said then, and even now his nervous smile and effete hand wave suggest someone afraid to venture too far from the shore.
Even before Mr. Forstall refused to sign the apology over the maps, he was on thin ice at Apple, said people familiar with the matter, despite fierce loyalty from some members of his team.
But many more displays like Leicester's feeble showing at Twickenham will leave Loffreda - who has come in for criticism for his decision to leave speedster Tom Varndell out of the side to face the Ospreys - on thin ice.
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My consciousness was fragile ground now, as thin as forming ice.
Inuit hunters are finding the sea ice too thin to bear their sleds.
The shop is open between November and March, the only time when the ice is thin enough for ships to reach the area.
Charles pointed out that mankind had caused the Arctic sea ice to thin and rainforests to shrink by a third since the 1950s.
It closes shop at the end of February before the ice begins to thin.
That's when you notice the gleam of black ice under the thin dusting of snow, mocking the idea of changing direction with anything like the control of a car or a pair of skis.
But the sparse mostly Inuit populations dotted along the coastline find that ice floes are often so thin that hunters can no longer use dog sledges, reports say.
That new ice will often be fragile and thin, easily disrupted by summer weather.
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So it appears that the ice that the hotheads skate on is pretty thin.
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When the North Sea formed at the end of the last ice age, the tusks became buried in the thin layers of sand at the bottom of the shallow southern part of it.
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In the United States, investigators with Homeland Security Investigations, the law enforcement arm of ICE, saw a Frito-Lay Rold Gold bag for thin pretzels in the videos.
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