Word: short
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Claims that the council is expendable are short-sighted and irresponsible. Allowing the voice of the majority to be completely lost in a sea of special interests is not how a democracy is supposed to work. Is the council broken? Yes, and it has been for years. Let's fix it, let's give students a stake in it, but let's not give...
With only one receiver in the game and the offense aligned in a short-yardage set, Menick carried twice for nine yards. Wilford then ran a quarterback sneak for three yards to give Harvard its crucial first down...
Contact consists of three spoken one-act dramas--Stroman calls them short stories--performed by dancer-actors and accompanied by a delectably eclectic jukebox of recordings by everybody from Benny Goodman and Stephane Grappelli to Robert Palmer and the Squirrel Nut Zippers. Nobody onstage sings a note. In Swinging, Fragonard's 1767 painting of an aristocratic young lady (Stephanie Michels) frolicking in a forest glade becomes a real-life menage a trois even kinkier than it looks. Did You Move?, set in an Italian restaurant in Queens circa 1954, is a bittersweet vignette about an unhappy housewife (Karen Ziemba...
...keep things simple, consider a stock fund that invests primarily in telecommunications companies. In fact, a sector fund targeting any rapidly consolidating growth industry makes sense. The funds get a short-term lift from premium-priced takeovers of companies they own and do well over the long haul by owning companies that get big and dominate. The average telecom fund has trounced the average stock fund over the past three, five, 10 and 15 years, according to Lipper Analytical Services. The experience has been similarly fruitful in financial services and health care...
...imagine Andrew Carnegie calling in the press to insist that his buns were in fact a lot tighter than photographs made them appear. Still, times have changed. Personally, I took Perelman at his word. Also the Times reporter, Rick Marin, provided some confirmation in the story: "Short...