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...shortest team in the Ivies, so we are getting picked on with middle-blockers," Lem said. "Our defense position will have to improve to counter our lack of height...
Although John T. Dunlop served the shortest time of any Dean of the Faculty--from 1970 to 1973--he has been at the University since 1938, longer than any of the other panelists, he said...
Fidelity to the text is indeed the trademark of this Tempest, but it makes the play too slow and too long. Shakespeare's shortest play should be enchanting, like one of Prospero's spells; as it is, Bradford's production seems longer than its lengthy three hour running time. The problem is compounded by the fact that the actors speak their lines very slowly, as if too reverent of Shakespeare's poetry...
Gorbachev conveyed a sense of urgency about the economic problems faced by the Soviet Union. Said he: "Comrades, a problem we will have to solve in the shortest time possible is that of fully meeting our country's food needs." His prescription for progress in agricultural production: better and more independent management of farms, more efficient harvest and transport of crops, and improved farm technology. He also promised to carry on his purge against corruption and laziness, which have driven hundreds of party and government officials from jobs they once regarded as sinecures...
...automobiles (proposed fare: about $30 for a vehicle and driver) and single- deckers for trucks. France Manche officials claim that an entire train could be loaded in only ten minutes. The crossing will take 30 minutes, vs. 75 minutes for ferries and 35 minutes for Hovercraft now plying the shortest (21- mile) cross-Channel route, from Dover to Calais. If France's high-speed TGV (Train a Grande Vitesse) network is extended to the Channel coast, the Paris-London train journey will take 3 3/4 hours, half the average time of the current trip by rail and boat...