Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women can make unique contributions to public office, Ferraro said. "Instead of engaging in conflict, women are more likely to negotiate. Instead of focussing on the short term, women are more likely to think of generations to come," she said...
Mieth questioned the safety of a system which would merge eight lanes into two lanes on a relatively short stretch of highway. "It will create more problems than it solves," the planner added...
...companies might want to take a cue from the Japanese, who invest in the future without being overly concerned about the impact of temporary recessions on short-term profits. They want to make sure they have enough capacity when demand surges. And with U.S. manufacturing in the midst of a renaissance, it is certainly no time for American managers to be timid...
...crackdown failed. Life was literally too short to skimp on pleasure and display. Untreatable diseases made 50 years an advanced age. The slow plague of syphilis is one of the smoldering subtexts of Simon's brimming narrative. Prostitutes gave the contagion to their customers, who passed it on to their wives. If women were not rendered barren by the bacterium, there were always the risks of childbirth and puerperal fever. Women were meant to provide heirs and cement profitable agreements through wedlock...
...engine, Laurel races down the rutted track. Even before the truck comes to a halt, Trevino is out and running. Suddenly shots are fired, and bullets buzz overhead. Muffled shouts and the sounds of breaking branches come from a thicket of mesquite. Then more shots, this time a short burst from an automatic weapon. A handgun replies purposefully. The shooting stops as abruptly as it started...