The audition process is like watching a super-charged, condensed version of the job interview process.

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Axel Springer's Welt Kompakt, for instance, is a condensed version of Die Welt, not an exact copy.

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Herb Greenberg gave a condensed version of the TechCrunch story on CNBC this morning, which no doubt is fanning the flames.

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The following is an edited and condensed version of the transcript.

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He was commissioned to write it as an episodic work for radio, so it is a swift, compressed and much condensed version of the 12, 000-line original.

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For those who are serious, Sharp has a condensed version of what he says are the required readings of his work, a guide to self-liberation, available free on the Albert Einstein Institution website.

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The on-line version of that form requires 60 printed pages to spell out all the queries. (A condensed paper version of the same application fills 21 pages).

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The current version has been condensed into a play of about four hours in a co-production between the Edinburgh Festival and the Abbey Theatre of Dublin (which, we are reminded in a programme note, is the Irish National Theatre).

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