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Because of the debts which they have accrued and because of pressure from their parents, many graduate students will be forced to shorten their programs. Those who are able to obtain the number of teaching units necessary to support themselves will be forced to devote less time to their research. The extent of the academic preparation of graduate students will thus diminish...
...recommendation placed a three-week moratorium on any lawsuit or proceeding - new or pending - that relates to the strike but added that this does not apply to efforts to shorten the four BEA officers sentences...
...sailors had depleted its limited fresh-water supply. More plausible was the danger that an aircraft mechanic might have his obligatory hair net sucked into a jet engine. Meanwhile, long-haired soldiers deluged West Germany's Wehrbeau/tragter (military ombudsman) with complaints that commanders were arbitrarily forcing them to shorten their hair or making them wear hair nets even on jobs where safety was not a factor...
...each issue of the Telegraph: "SOLAR NAIL saved ground from the start, got through rallying in the stretch and outgamed ODDS HAVE IT to the wire." Or "BOBS B BEES quickest to begin, moved to the inner rail when clear, increased the margin along the backstretch, began to shorten stride in the final sixteenth and was all out to last over STOOL PIGEON...
...rule is expected to shorten college games by as much as 12 minutes. This is based on an average of 30 seconds required to line up for and take one field goal--during which time the clock is stopped...