Word: shortly
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Despite expectations that the committee would present a short list of candidates to the Board of Overseers at its meeting yesterday, the search remains in the intermediate stages, the official said...
Storton swears he knows who nipped him: Jonathan, the one who had long hair on the night of the crime. Clearly an open and shut case but for a small detail. By the time the twins were arrested three days after the incident, both had short haircuts. Storton still insists it was Jonathan. But one of the defense attorneys, Chris Carroll, predicts that "there will be substantial evidence submitted at the trial to show that the officer was mistaken about the identity of the biter...
...last week. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan became the first to acknowledge that the economy is shrinking when he told a congressional committee that "a meaningful downturn" had occurred in October and November and the GNP would probably decline for the fourth quarter as a whole. But Greenspan stopped short of calling the downturn a recession, which is officially defined as two straight quarters of a falling GNP. Said he: "We won't know whether it is the beginning of a recession or just some aberration for quite a while...
...Gutenberg Bible and a garden donated by the King of Siam), help give Eton more the air of a university than a high school. That impression is intensified by the precocious self-possession of its students, who seem to have nothing teenage about them, maturing overnight from short pants into three-piece suits. Recent issues of the Eton College Chronicle, the boys' magazine, feature long articles on perestroika, detailed surveys of Malawi, rhymed quatrains about Salman Rushdie. Boys put on plays by Ken Kesey and Lope de Vega, flock to a newly formed Green Society, gather to discuss the biological...
...short one that would be over in days...