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Writer/narrator Carey Wilson explains how Mr. Reagan came to be called "Deany" (shortened from Gardenia).
People in his life who were a pivotal part of his life were just omitted from this movie and it was just like this ... they took a wonderful man's life and shortened it in an hour and a half.
To keep money coming, he shortened the maturity of domestic and foreign liabilities; to keep the music going he gave state governments leeway to spend money they didn't have.
A patient’s life, Percival wrote, can be shortened not only by a doctor’s acts, but also by his words and manner.
The Board agreed – with no notable dissent – and even shortened the selection process to a mere three weeks.
But it’s not as clear as many believe that the holding period for traditional shareholders has shortened greatly – or at all.
Nor can the duration of the residence permit be shortened simply because the immigrant claims welfare assistance.
Breakthroughs in physics and chemistry enabled the extraordinary development of electronics and materials that dramatically shortened time and distance, ushering in an information age of fast, secure communication and transport.
Scheduled to be completed next year, it will also give Central Asian exporters a greatly shortened route to Europe.
Digitally enabled supply chains initially increased efficiency and dramatically shortened lead times.
Moreover, China abruptly shortened the length of its border with India by rescinding its recognition of the 1,597-kilometer (992-mile) line separating Indian Kashmir from Chinese-held Kashmir.
Packed roads and bumper-to-bumper traffic mean time wasted and workdays shortened.
And, whereas few people now get ECT involuntarily, and in all cases consent is sought, a large and growing number get antipsychotic drugs under false pretences, including children, vulnerable adults, patients with Alzheimer’s, and a host of others whose lives are shortened by treatment, with no effort undertaken to seek their consent.
But, even if managers and boards at publicly traded firms focus excessively on their quarterly results, and even if median stock-holding periods have shortened greatly in recent decades, it is difficult to know whether stock-market trading has become more rapid in ways that would make managers pay even more attention to quarterly results.
For 90% of the shareholders, nothing has changed and their holding period has not shortened.
Since the advent of digital and social media, the news cycle has been shortened to minutes, encouraging a continuous flow of imprecise, sensational, false, or deeply biased content.
Shortened lives mean less economic output and income.
Lists will be shortened and deletions made, and this will frequently entail eliminating even good personal friends of the diplomats in charge of the screening, people whom they have given various forms of intellectual, political, or material assistance.
And some local governments have purged such voters from electoral rolls, reduced the number of polling stations, or shortened their hours of operation.
As part of this process, Benedict XVI dramatically shortened the number of years that blessed persons had to wait to graduate from beatification to sainthood.
Yet workers’ share of the pie is falling, thanks to high unemployment, shortened working hours, and stagnant wages.
Solemn promises made over the years would have to be broken (people would not get the social services that they paid for with a lifetime of high taxes), lives would be shortened (less money for hospitals and nursing homes), and overall hardship increased.
Conversely, if the SIR2 gene is deleted, the life span is shortened.
It has shortened dramatically the process for forming a new company.
Those against a shortened work week, however, dismiss the increase in the number of jobs that results from shorter working hours as a false solution – a crude swap of working hours for an increase in the number of workers.
This trend toward microwaveable pre-packaged convenience has led to the erosion of regionally specific diets and created a more homogeneous – and unhealthy – globalized menu, one associated with obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and shortened lives.
He has had obesity thrust upon him, and with it a dysfunctional metabolism, insulin resistance, chronic illness, and a shortened life.
Managers should ask whether any meetings could be eliminated, shortened, or conducted without video.
Supply chains will be reorganized and shortened, auguring further disruptions of trade.
US leaders must also fund high-frequency testing with shortened result times.
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