II.in [美 ɪn, 英 ɪn]副in often appears as the second element of certain verb structures in English (close in, hand in, stand in, etc). For translations, see the relevant verb entry (close, hand, stand, etc).
Over the next decade, after a switch in materials from papier-mache to ceramic, bobbleheads would be produced for other sports, as well as cartoon characters.
The atomicity of the operations within step 1 is important to avoid race conditions that would be caused by a preemptive thread switch in-between them.