Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Peggy A. McNamara, spokesperson for the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), the suspects in the case are one six foot two inch tall black male with short dread locks donning a dark jacket. The other is a "shorter, stockier" black male...
Although Radcliffe has offered shorter extensions of the original lease, FAS officials said they require a more permanent agreement...
...Newspapers will shrink in size. Over the past 125 years, newspapers have grown. Now they will begin to shrink. The newspaper of 25 years from now will be smaller, but will contain more relevant information for the reader. In addition, articles will be shorter and contain plugs for ways to find out more information about the subject through the Internet...
...Japan these days, the only thing in shorter supply than confidence is trust. A top broadcaster aired a show on the country's economic woes--bad debt, creeping unemployment, collapsing banks and businesses--featuring a series of film clips in which top politicians and bureaucrats kept insisting that there would be no bank failures and that the economy was recovering, even growing. "The subtext," says Alicia Ogawa, an American-born banker who has lived in Japan for more than a decade, "was that you couldn't possibly believe a thing these people said...
...Nearsighted Witness. On the night of the murder, Babin told police that things were so confusing she doubted she could identify the killer. She did say he was "slightly shorter" than Gerardi--but, in fact, Cousin is 4 in. taller than Gerardi. Three days later, in a formal, taped statement, police asked Babin again if she could ID the killer. "I don't know," she said. "It was dark, and I didn't have my contacts or my glasses so I'm coming at this at a disadvantage." That statement was never turned over to the defense. Later...