Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Following films of the '58 race, maker Ted Hood, who designed and now skippers the Boston yacht, described innovations in design Nefertiti. The boat, he said, is what shorter and wider than there twelves, with her mast stepped somewhat aft to allow for the use of a larger Genoa...
Meany justifies the 35-hour week on the theory that companies would have to hire more men. But in the few cases where unions have achieved shorter weeks, management has simply scheduled more overtime work. The celebrated 25-hour week won by New York construction electricians this year (TIME, Jan. 26) works out in practice as 25 hours at straight-time pay and five or ten hours on overtime. Other unions that have got a short week complain that it inspires workers to "moonlight" by seeking out second jobs, thus actually cuts down work opportunities. A widespread adoption...
...lawyers learned, life with an imaginative, volatile, high-risk driver is likely to be more stimulating and interesting than with a conventional plodder−but also shorter...
Customs men and censors make the crudest cuts: the girl's fingers move to the buttons of her blouse, and suddenly it's breakfast. Distributors make deeper cuts after films leave first-run houses, on the simple calculation that the shorter the film, the more times it can be run in any one day. When Rocco and His Brothers arrived here from Italy a year ago, it was a full, pasta-rich 180 minutes long. After a run in New York art theaters, it mysteriously shrank to 147, then pushed off for the rest of the nation...
...customers almost always leave the shop restyled. Parts disappear or shift sides; the hair may be shorter, the sides fuller. For this attention Sebring gets $15 for the first visit, $10 subsequently...