Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still unnamed, it will be the smallest U.S.-built auto on the road: almost 3 ft. shorter (175¼ in. overall) than any Big Three car, 3 in. shorter than American Motors' Rambler, which has sold 104,677 cars this year. For customer appeal its design will have "a hint" of this year's Hawk sports car in its styling. For variety S.-P.'s "Model X" will come in four body styles, have a choice of V-8 or six-cylinder engines. Said President Harold Churchill: "I'm happy to see the Big Three coming...
...Shorter contracts also are preferred by firms in fastmoving industries where technological changes come with dazzling rapidity. A rigid, long-term contract only tends to damage their competitive position. Electronics firms and oil producers must have flexible labor relations if they hope to take advantage of technological breakthroughs. In aviation, Lockheed and other planemakers prefer short-term contracts, not only because the state of the art is proceeding in quantum jumps, but also because the business itself comes in fits and starts...
...best, since only ten weeks ago Kuznetsov had scored 8,013-28 points better than Johnson's own world-record 7,985. The Russians shortened the interval between events from half an hour to 20 minutes, but it bothered Rafe not a bit. "I like the interval even shorter," he said, "only about five or ten minutes to catch my breath." With the event half over...
...almost every other designer kept hemlines at the knees, Saint-Laurent lowered them some five inches to just 15 inches above the floor. No one else showed any signs of going along. In fact, one U.S. buyer who ordered some Dior dresses specified that they be delivered four inches shorter...
...play runs somewhat shorter than most Broadway shows; but Schulman wisely refrained from padding it out unduly. If one were to find fault, it would be in the curtain lines that close the several scenes; more thought would have yielded better ones...