Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council is also concerned about a potential lack of available taxis for shorter trips within Cambridge...
Clinton's success owes most to his least liberal moments. He pushed through a crime bill whose federal portion paid for 100,000 cops by cutting federal employees and gave death-row prisoners a shorter lease on life. By signing welfare reform, he managed to win over moderates with his tough-love approach while convincing liberals they should stick with him as the best hope for fixing what they most hated in the bill he had just signed. In 1992 it would have been a wild, drunken Republican dream that by 1996 a 60-year-old entitlement like...
Students can decrease consumption by taking shorter showers, turning off appliances that are not in use and reporting leaky faucets, window drafts and heating problems
Visotzky would smile. Perhaps more so than Moyers, he is, from personal experience, the Living Conversation's true believer. His initial group has spawned a successor, run by a colleague. He himself has moderated shorter programs with executives and a variety of others. Next week he will remarry: members of the original conversations will attend the wedding. The point, he says, "isn't so much about belief as about whether you're willing to take the risk of study. Study leads to conversation, and conversation leads to community, and that's what we're desperate...
...agents stood on nearby rooftops with surface-to-air missiles. Eighteen years ago, Mike Cornwell, the County Democratic Chairman, and a few anonymous aides were Clinton's only companions; he now has a phalanx of Secret Service agents. His only interaction with my parents and me was much shorter: "Great to see you again--Tom, you ever gonna quit growin...