Word: shorteners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Countries. Truck traffic over the Alps now takes a road full of steep grades and blocked seven to eight months out of twelve by snow. An alternative all-year route along the Mediterranean is shunned by truckers as hilly and hairpinnish. For tourists, the new tunnel will shorten the present Paris-Rome trip by 85 miles and many low-geared climbing hours...
This would not be acceleration which would merely shorten and compress the existing course program; it would probably involve many changes in the course setup itself. The idea of a three-year curriculum actually dates back to President Eliot...
...equipment. The committee sent its bill to the House, which is expected to pass it this week without amendment, but the Senate may not act upon the measure until late September. Members of the potent Senate Finance Committee have already said that they will cut the income-tax increase, shorten the length of time for which increases will be retroactive, and insist that the Government trim at least $5 billion of fat out of its nonwar expenditures, in order to make the budget balance even with the smaller tax yield...
...making your head of state double in the role of chief administrative officer of the state, you impose burdens upon the incumbent which inevitably must shorten his life ... You could afford a King or an Emperor, and so keep your symbolic head of state out of politics, and free your administrative chief from the burdens of ceremonies and affixing signatures to many documents...
...less controversial provisions, however, will probably remain unchanged. So, under the new act, men will have to serve 24 months at some period between the ages of 19 and 26. The first four months will be classified as "training," the rest as "service," with the president free to shorten or lengthen this "service" time as the international situation allows. Each man will go in a reserve unit for the six years after his training and service period...