Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heart of the matter. Golda used to bring a big team with her, and they talked for hours on end. With Rabin, the negotiating team is small, and they get right down to business. Rabin starts with the here and now, not with 'history. Their meetings are invariably shorter...
JEAN RENOIR'S Little Theater is three short movies and an even shorter interlude, held together by two simple ideas: that the world is like a little theater, with conventions as arbitrary but as crucial as the conventions of comedy, and that people who love each other come out right in the end. The movies' plots and characters are as simple as these ideas, and so is Renoir's technique--perhaps partly because he made the Little Theater for the smaller screen of television, his camera generally stays focused for several minutes at a time on a few people, against...
Harvard completely dominated the contest with their powerful rebounding. Crimson co-captain Lou Silver and center Brian Banks each hauled down 15 rebounds over the shorter Canadian team...
...Yardlings dominated play for the rest of the game. Aggressive play by the fullbacks held the ball in Tufts' end of the field. The forward line and the halfbacks, using shorter and more accurate passing, peppered the Jumbo goalie with 18 shots...
Small's invention, called the mandibular staple, is a lightweight titanium bar with two long, threaded pins and up to seven shorter ones (see diagram). It is attached to the dense bone on the underside of the jaw where its short pins help hold it in place. The long pins pass through the mandible and protrude through the gum into the mouth. There they serve as abutments to winch a dental bridge can be fastened...