The holiday of Maslyana usually falls on the last week before the 40-day long fast that precedes Easter.
He and his family had just sat down to break the day-long Ramadan fast when four gunmen entered their Mosul home.
The Deputy Chief Minister of India's Maharashtra state Ajit Pawar has apologised for ridiculing a farmer who has been on a 55-day-long protest fast demanding water for his farm.
The fast, long straights, the hairpins and the chicanes of the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve positively encourage passing.
Nearly as big as the Gulfstream G5, the 7X flies high, fast and long--6, 559 miles between fuel stops.
The impossibly slim, sub-three-pound design is a huge boon, as is its long battery life and fast performance.
Hiring still takes too long, promotions come fast and easy with time on the job, and all but a handful of employees are rated fully satisfactory or better in the annual appraisal charade.
But, no, it took a long time to figure out how long to stir, how fast to stir.
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But the power industry, which must double its output roughly every decade if India is to grow fast, has long been a disaster waiting to happen.
Talking is, of course, essential, but only to a point: In New York, the groups were urged to keep things moving fast, and long monologues were discouraged.
Don't believe the bandwidth gurus who tell you that the computer you hook up to the Net no longer matters, as long as your connection is fast.
But Domenicali insists Ferrari can catch Red Bull this year -- as long as it makes a fast start when the lights go green at Albert Park.
He brought in veteran telecom executives who owned a fast-growing wholesale long distance business.
Dr Eberhard says this shows whatever biochemical is introduced into the spiders' bodies is fast-acting and long-lasting.
Specialized companies such as financial traders have long turned systems that cope with fast moving data to their advantage.
He brought in veteran telecom executives who owned a fast-growing wholesale long-distance business.
Logic dictates the long-term value of slow versus fast repeating products simply cannot match this fixed value.
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Some fast-food chains have long sold bite-sized food like KFC's Popcorn Chicken, White Castle's Chicken Rings (think onion ring-shaped chicken), or Sonic's potato Tots.
Unlike their peers, Labradors lack the extravagance of a long coat or the grace of a fast gait, making it trickier to catch a judge's eye.
And the tricky clinical particulars of any given resuscitation mean that the paper cannot give rise to hard-and-fast rules about exactly how long doctors should persist.
It is important for the public to know -- the public, by and large, is not particularly aware of this matter -- that every document related to the Fast and Furious operation has long since been provided to congressional investigators.
"The insulins today don't start fast enough and they last too long, " he says.
Such fast growth cannot be sustained for long without running into inflationary bottlenecks.
The move, executives say, will keep the long-distance business from dragging on the fast-growing business of selling data services to business customers.
Qualcomm says the setup enables bright colors in direct sunlight, weeks-long battery life and an image refresh rate fast enough to support video.
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The costs of the social-security system are set to soar, in the short term because of the slump and in the long run because the country is ageing so fast.
What this suggests is a natural division of labour: a trouser maker could assemble average-sized khakis in volume in Mexico, but make special sizes such as narrow waists or long inseams in the United States, offering fast turnaround for retailers and less risk of overstocking.
In an era of widespread, inexpensive communications, knowledge spreads way too fast for it to hold power for long.
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