Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel that it would have been much more substantive (in addition to reflecting a more responsible news coverage policy by The Crimson) if instead of devoting an entire page to Feldstein, it would have sufficed to have included a shorter passage revealing such an emotionally-colored perspective on the psychological traumas suffered by kibbutzniks. Arab Information Center Director Hatem Husseini elaborates on the point that the media is a culprit to perpetuating slanted perspectives on the subject...
...Shanks wrote that 60 Minutes is "pontifical and humorless, and its 14-minute pieces nowadays often seem too long." He promised that 20/20 would be wittier and move faster. "We don't travel to the Coast by train any more," Shanks elaborated last week. "People perceive things in shorter forms today...
Riesman said that a factor related to the decline of writing quality is the decline of reading skills. "Today our attention span seems shorter," he said...
Nearly a head shorter than his gangling charges, chubby and a bit owlish behind the plain frames of his glasses, Morgan Wootten looks more like a history teacher-which he is until afterschool practice begins-than the builder of a basketball dynasty. While still an undergraduate at Montgomery Junior College in suburban Washington, he was offered a coaching job at a Catholic boys' home. "I fell in love with coaching," Wootten says, "and changed my major from prelaw to education." Now 46, he has remained a high school coach despite a stream of offers from colleges-including Wake Forest...
Boeing salesmen had been trying for nearly five years to get potential buyers to choose between a long-range, three-engine plane seating eight across and a shorter range, two-engine model seating six across. Both had supporters, but Boeing was unable to get enough advance orders for either one to make the $2 billion production wager worthwhile...