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Bundy pointed out, however, that other members of the Faculty felt that the present system has advantages over proposals to shorten the period of graduate study...
...move with the show; he can only draw attention away from it, like someone marching exuberantly out of step. The story, with its romantic snarls and journalistic crises, clumps its stubbornly senseless, monstrously long-winded way. It is a story that Foy can briefly brighten or interrupt, but never shorten or save...
Actually, the law requiring the listing of expense account payments has been on the books since 1921. But it has been ignored by Internal Revenue and most taxpayers. In 1944 Internal Revenue went so far as to shorten the tax return form by eliminating the line for expense account payments, although the bureau still instructed taxpayers to list such payments in total income. In changing the 1957 form to require an accounting of expense account money, Internal Revenue was aiming at such loophole crawlers as the owner of a small business or the officer of a racketeering union who reports...
...obtain confessions from the doctors we will shorten you by a head." The doctors were arrested and charged with having murdered Politburocrats Zhdanov and Shcherbakov and having attempted to poison some top Red marshals...
...turnpike has four lanes with a posted speed limit of sixty miles an hour. It should shorten the trip to New York by at least a half an hour or even more for the intrepid college motorist. The chief advantage of the road for the New York traveler is that it cuts out the bleak stretch comprising Routes 9 and 20 to the Wilbur Cross Parkway...