Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They also go through extensive workouts that include two-mile runs on a treadmill. Throughout their missions cosmonauts stay on a diet designed to keep physical deterioration to a minimum. Romanenko's doctors say he lost at most 5% of his bone calcium, while other cosmonauts, although weightless for shorter periods, have suffered far higher losses. The cosmonaut added that he did not feel there would be "any limitations" to enduring longer missions in space...
Nell Krabacher lived happily with her husband in Anchorage throughout the spring and summer of 1986. Then came the fall. As the days grew shorter, her spirits darkened. The ex-aerobics instructor, then 30, began gorging on carbohydrates, became increasingly lethargic, and would burst into tears for no apparent reason. By November, when daylight lasted only seven hours, Krabacher had gained 20 lbs. "There were some days," she recalls, "when all I could do was get out of bed and get on the couch and stare until the sun came up." Miserable and panicked, Krabacher fled to her former home...
...very title of the document is a mouthful -- Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles. It runs to 169 single-spaced typewritten pages, with 17 articles and three annexes. Nearly every word has been haggled over for years. Some brackets in the text, indicating passages still in dispute, were finally removed only last week...
...Europe but insisted further on a 50% reduction of SS-20s in Asia. The Pentagon, represented in a series of heated meetings by Perle, wanted to hang tough on "global zero" (zero SS-20s in Asia as well as Europe) and also to force Soviet concessions on their "shorter-range" SS-12/ 22 and SS-23 missiles...
Still, whether or not undergraduates are satisfied, Institute students are privileged to study with some of the biggest names in the dramatic world. They meet with the ART's voice and movement coaches three times a week, and study for shorter lengths of time with actors from the Company...