However, despite seeing the odds on him being selected for Capello's 2010 squad shorten to 5-4 with bookmakers, Owen remains odds-on not to make the plane to South Africa at 4-7.
Napolitano and Mayorkas have promised to shorten the process to weeks rather than months.
Investors are going to have to shorten their focus to short-term and intermediate-term trading rather than long-term buy and hold if they want to make profits in this type of trader-controlled market.
Are these types of deals likely to shorten the time to liquidity for drug discovery deals, or once in the arms of a big bureaucracy will the pace of the projects slow and actually extend the timelines?
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Within a year, with some demonstrated progress, the company asked him to shorten the time horizon to accomplish this in four years rather than five.
It has promised to shorten hospital waiting times and to increase the number of acute-care beds.
So far Boeing has merely offered to shorten the deals from 25 to 15 years and limit new ones to ten years, a concession Mr Van Miert regards as feeble.
Did a pledge to shorten hospital waiting lists encourage hospitals to give priority to minor cases?
Indeed it even suggests that for those over 25, half an hour of TV viewing "may shorten life to a similar degree" as smoking a cigarette.
"But even if we upgraded those systems, the lack of a really effective vaccine, the lack of better and faster drugs that shorten treatment to a reasonable time and the lack of good drugs for treating resistant disease -- make it hard for any health care system to effectively deal with the disease, " he said.
"We're working with our Russians partners to see if we can shorten the timeline to do manoeuvres, " Mr Gerstenmaier said.
At their conference, junior doctors will also discuss government plans to shorten the number of years they have to train to become a consultant.
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The government has made it a priority to try to shorten the time it takes for adoptions to go through, and to remove barriers to them.
Their trick was to shorten the lengths of the pulses of current to about a nanosecond.
"Imagine what it will do for a company to be able to shorten the time it takes your sales force to understand a new product, " he says.
It is necessary to shorten the time frame from 20 years down to 10 years in order to get a data set which includes a lot more countries.
That may be possible because of plans to shorten Army combat-zone tours from 15 months to 12 months as of this summer.
In that case, the government may be forced to shorten the term of the franchise from 15 years to, say, eight years.
The opposition parties are now working on whether the presidential election can be moved up to mid-October, to shorten this dangerous period of insecurity when no one appears to be in full control of their own forces, much less the country.
Attempts to shorten school summer holidays and change terms in England could lead to more regional strike action by teachers.
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MPs agreed to shorten their summer break a couple of years ago, returning to Westminster in early September for about two weeks ahead of the conference season.
During a rampant house-price boom lenders might be told to reduce the amount they can lend as a percentage of the purchase price of a home or to shorten repayment periods the exact opposite of what tends to happen now.
In order to shorten the learning curve, Facebook is working on a way to better educate users how to use Home through a series of blue instructional text bubbles (affectionately called Blues Clues) that explain Home's features when you first try to access them.
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Looking to shorten the insight cycle, the company promises most customers will begin to see value from using the software before the 30-day free trial ends.
If, indeed, certain prayers could be shown to shorten the course of illness, would not American religious institutions rush to patent and license them, just as many of our (non-profit) universities have done with research on the human genome?
Here's a way to shorten your job search: Approach a company with a project that you can implement to help increase profits, and ask for a meeting to discuss the idea.
It was New Komeito, many of whose members are pacifists, which also pressured the government to shorten the Diet session so that the passage of this year's mission in the Indian Ocean was certain not to pass, since the time allotted was not enough for the government to use its supermajority.
It contains enough infrastructure spending to shorten the recession by a couple of quarters.
To shorten procedures, they stuffed the cash in cigarette packs and threw them from their cab windows.
YCharts, which charts historical company performance in dozens of ways, has found a way to shorten those starting lists considerably.
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