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...wrenching social history to the very young assaults their innocence by deliberately disturbing their cozy, rosy view of the world. For what purpose? Is moral complacency among second-graders a growing social problem? They live only once, and for a very short time, in a tooth-fairy world. Why shorten that time further...
Healy's final proposal would reinstate the existing rent-control system with major modifications. Among other changes, the modifications would shorten the processing time of rent-control law suits...
...networks have responded by launching a war against channel grazing. All four are moving to shorten opening-credit sequences, spice up the end credits with program material (such as outtakes from the show just seen) and add more "seamless transitions" -- eliminating the commercials between shows -- in an effort to keep viewers hooked. Meanwhile, time slots are more critical than ever to a show's success or failure...
...mole Aldrich Ames said he betrayed U.S. agents behind the Iron Curtain for money and also because he wanted to shorten the cold war by "leveling the playing field," according to a report in the New York Times...
...fact that reading period is so short has made me want to kill whoever decided to shorten it," says a computer science concentrator. "Send me his name, please...