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UA: That's right, and of course, most people don't work weekends, so it's four days out of the 10 work days in the two weeks, and once you have a predictable schedule of four days at work, you can work longer hours, you can design shifts and get higher productivity by prioritizing in those four days much more than 40 percent of the workdays.
The point is, I can respond to people very quickly by saying a short word, and having it write out a much longer thing.
And on a much longer time scale, what we hope to do is build even larger telescopes, because, remember, bigger is better in astronomy.
The longer the exposure goes on for, the more detail you get.
[Individual results may vary] (Laughter) The thinner I was, the longer I was able to hold my breath.
And analysis shows if you want to be among the most favorite TED speakers, you should let your hair grow a little bit longer than average, make sure you wear your glasses and be slightly more dressed-up than the average TED speaker.
If you don't kill the fish, they take a longer time to die, they grow larger and they reproduce a lot.
In the longer term, what they can do is use these tools of retro-vaccinology to make a preventive flu vaccine.
We can't have advances in technology any longer unless design is integrated from the very start.
Or have they got longer lives and live up there?
What has happened is this: that China is growing, it's not so equal any longer, and it's appearing here, overlooking the United States, almost like a ghost, isn't it?
Choice no longer offers opportunities, but imposes constraints.
But by refocusing the incentives within the health care industry today to actively keep people healthy, we may not only be able to prevent more diseases in the first place but we may also be able to detect the onset of certain preventable diseases earlier than we do today, which will lead to longer and healthier lives for more people.
Murder Weapon gives us a lot of inane dialogue scenes, but they go on for a lot longer than in most movies of this type.
I hope that Matt Dorff's original script for this was much better (there are signs of it - dialogue that should happen well before big f/x scenes (to introduce characters) that would make sense much earlier, is jammed in later in the time-line; perhaps the original script was for a longer running-time.
Watching this movie all I could think of was, maybe it gets better, but after 20 minutes I couldn't watch it any second longer.
What is left is a turgid melodrama which takes an age to get started and even longer to finish.
Scenes were much longer than they had to be - the camera would often focus on something for long periods of time when absolutely nothing was happening.
Once again Mr. Costner has dragged out a movie for far longer than necessary.
And longer than it should be cause it felt way longer than it is.
The premise is limited in scope and the short actually feels a lot longer than it runs.
The chipmunks were adorable, yet sometimes blatantly obvious at moving the plot of the story along, and therefore did not tempt me to stay in the theater for longer than half an hour into the film.
The whole thing is pretty much blown by the "cop side" of the story, where Sandra Bullock and Ben Chaplin's homicide detective characters muddle through an awkward sexual affair that becomes more and more trivialized the longer the movie goes on.
In my personal opinion, Mr. Swayze could have portrayed a valid Monk, however I think that in order to do the movie justice, it would have been a far longer movie, and I don't think Hollywood itself would have gone for the plot of discreditation by subterfuge.
First there was Tsui Hark's Zu Warriors (2001), which is visually ground-breaking, but much lacking in the acting and writing departments, now this movie, which is visually almost as good as Zu (though no longer ground-breaking), but is even worse in the acting and writing departments.
Well, sometimes you just want to listen little bit longer and the music just stops.
We have in this several longer vignettes interspliced with some shorter segues.
Good drama movie about a child custody case with great performances by all the actors.A good example of what an excellent script can do to propel a simple story to a much higher quality.The screenplay was just average though and this is what kept the movie from the list of the all time best dramas.Still,the great acting makes this movie a good one to see if you are a fan of court dramas or a big fan of the lead actors.The movie really should have been a tad longer though for more excellence but that would really be nitpicking......
Meanwhile, European films address these same situations, walk off looking like a million bucks, and have a longer shelf-life because what we consider scandalous, they shrug off, say "Next," and move on.
When it is, I for one would like both versions--the longer and shorter, director's cut.
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