Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paid a visit to Pitts' shop to exchange pleasantries. "He looks exactly like me but he's better looking," agreed Rocky. Milton concentrated on planning a different crown for his potential new customer. "He needs to have completely different shaping on top. I want it a little shorter on top, a little fuller on the sides, a little lower in the back." He concluded confidently: "I can improve the Vice President's hair...
...will spend $3 billion over the next four years to develop and produce smaller versions of its Buick, Pontiac and Chevrolet models. In April it will roll out a new Cadillac tailored for the age of rising gasoline costs: it will be 1,000 Ibs. lighter, 2 ft. shorter and almost 1 ft. narrower than today's four-door, 5,100-lb. Calais De-Ville. In addition, GM is planning to reduce its five distinct body styles to two or three. The company's eight engine varieties may be cut to four (one four-cylinder, two sixes...
...division will introduce the Bobcat, a fancied-up, $3,000-plus version of the Pinto, as its entry in the small-car field. Ford has also come out with two trimmed-down models aimed at the standard-car buyer: the Mercedes-size Granada and Monarch, which are 26 in. shorter, 8 in. narrower and more than half a ton lighter than the standard-size sedan, but longer on mileage (between 18 and 26 m.p.g. on the highways...
...under a handicap in his first movie. Young conceived the film himself, directed it and cut it, all with the same impenetrable seriousness that characterizes much of his music. It is easier to get away with recording your dreams and your fantasies on vinyl than on film. Songs are shorter, and a good melody can often get you safely across a lyric crag...
Those three to five minutes may become a turning-point in the trial, cross-examination indicated earlier this week. Homans seemed prepared to argue that Edelin took three to five minutes to perform what is usually a shorter operation, not because he was allowing a fetus to breathe and then suffocate, but because the amniotic sac which envelops the fetus had burst, drawing out the operation...