Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some economists, the shorter lag suggests that there have been basic changes in the inventory policy of U.S. business-that with the aid of computers and other new control techniques, businessmen are gearing inventory changes more closely to sales shifts and seeking to avoid the costs of high inventories. Says Louis Paradise, chief statistician for the Commerce Department: "Evidence is widespread that caution is now being used in inventory accumulation...
...three weeks since Hussein's surprise engagement announcement, his Cabinet and the strong-minded Queen Mother Zain had tried hard to talk him out of the idea. Not that anybody objected to the girl personally. At 20, Toni Avril Gardiner is modestly pretty, modestly sized (4 in. shorter than Hussein's 5 ft. 6 in.), modestly educated (like Hussein, she never went to college)-in many ways a better match than Hussein's first wife, Queen Dina, who was taller, seven years older, and holder of an M.A. from Cambridge. Hussein got to know Toni...
Heavy winds and rain forced the scheduled mile and three-quarters race on Lake Cayuga onto the shorter course. The shells were staggered at the start with the varsity on the inside and Cornell on the outside...
Brown is a newcomer to the Crimson schedule, having just started rowing several years ago. Last year it was very successful at the shorter Henley distance races, but may have trouble over the mile and three-quarters course...
Although some projects, such as the Columbia Teachers College, requires men with only an A.B. to undergo nine months of training in Uganda, mostly in pedagogy, Monro said he was "persuaded we can do it in four months." Monro would advocate an even shorter training period, but, he said, "the Peace Corps is worried about the political implication of failure...