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Word: shortener (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Usage:

...jingle, sung by actor Saburo Tokito, who plays an oddly intrepid businessman in Regain's surreal commercials. So far, the CD has sold 300,000 copies and topped the Japanese pop-music chart. Definitely not amused: Japan's Labor Ministry, which has been trying to persuade the Japanese to shorten their workweek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Jingle Single Jangles Japan | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

...Shorten reading period and exam period: This would make January stress even worse, but at least it wouldn't have to last the whole month. I'm sure Harvard students would adore this solution. In fact, maybe we should scrap December vacation, too, so that we wouldn't have to deal with the guilt of relaxing...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Reading Period Disease | 2/3/1990 | See Source »

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