Word: shortening
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...guidelines will have only a limited effect unless the sentencing commission makes them retroactive - an issue it is expected to discuss at a Nov. 13 meeting. As of now, the new guidelines will affect only new offenders. If the commission decides to go retro, the move could shorten the prison terms for some 19,500 inmates by an average of 27 months...
...difficult for a yoga teacher today to withstand student pressure to shorten or skip the warm-up sequence. Often students just want to "get on with it." Your article validates the pace of a traditional class that prepares properly for practice. Abby Lentz, Certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher Austin, Texas...
...sentence on principle. But Iraqi officials accused the U.S. of shielding Hashem for an entirely different reason: the general had been a U.S. collaborator. American officials familiar with Hashem's role say he had been in secret contact with U.S. intelligence before the invasion of Iraq and had helped shorten the war by minimizing the Iraqi army's resistance to American forces. "We called him on the phone and said, Look, we will kill your units if you don't do x," a former senior officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency (dia) told Time. "Then he went...
...suburbs of southern Auckland. Inspired by violent rap, hip-hop music and L.A. gang culture, they seem destined either to swell the ranks of the more established ethnic or motorcycle gangs, or, perhaps more alarmingly, to create their own equally ruthless organizations. Dubbed the ABC gangs by police, who shorten their two- or three-word names to acronyms, they have been linked to at least eight deaths in the last two years, not to mention numerous serious assaults, car theft, drug dealing, burglary and extortion. Victims have been run over and dragged under a van, beaten with baseball bats...
...pouring billions of dollars into its highway system, but thanks to a swelling middle class and booming car sales, the roads are filling up faster than they can be built. For now, Reliance plans to buy mostly from farmers located within a couple of hours of major cities to shorten transport times. The company will build up its own fleet of trucks, but will also outsource some of its transport needs. Eventually, trucks will be fitted with radio or satellite transmitters that will allow a central control room to track locations and cargo-a far cry from the bullock carts...