• The story of Joan's short life would be deemed preposterous if it had not actually happened.

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  • The really big moment in Spotify's short life came in the summer, when it launched in the United States.

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  • What is clear as a result of reading Mr. Kirsch's book is the sad reflection that almost everything in Grynszpan's short life was done alone.

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  • Stevenson's short life was spent, after Edinburgh, in ceaseless journeying, purportedly for the sake of his poor health periodically his lungs would bleed but probably also for some ease of spirit and to escape from the fettered Presbyterianism at home.

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  • Veteran actress Kiruna Stamell, who plays Mr. Davis's love interest on "Life's Too Short, " has no problem with "Lord of the Rings, " since the characters are mythical.

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  • It's just a tragedy that someone's life has been cut short.

    BBC: Joshua Williams

  • But your eye's on the prize and you can't realize that your little girl's life's so short.

    NPR: Folk-Soul Singer Amos Lee in Concert

  • The group ran into several problems, ranging from the drug's short-lived action in the body to short shelf-life.

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  • Warwick Davis had the satirical idea for HBO's "Life's Too Short, " a deadpan, "The Office"-style faux-documentary series.

    WSJ: Little People Wait for 'Mirror Mirror' and 'Snow White and the Huntsman'

  • To the short list of life's certainties--death, taxes, the Cannes film festival--we can add another inevitability: Every four years U.S. sports officials cook up a new scheme to make the U.S. an international powerhouse in men's soccer.

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  • To the short list of life's certainties--death, taxes, the Cleveland Browns' never winning the Super Bowl--we can add another inevitability: Every four years U.S. sports officials cook up a new scheme to make the U.S. an international powerhouse in men's soccer.

    FORBES: Kicks Are for Kids

  • Jonathan Phillips, chairman of North Yorkshire Safeguarding Adults Board, said the case was unusual "in that it focuses on a very short period of the man's life and that his involvement took place over the extended Christmas and New Year holiday period".

    BBC: Homeless man dead in Harrogate hotel room for four days

  • Sun Life 's numbers were weak, and although Great-West Life's profit was up a little, it fell short of the forecasts.

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  • Then there's Bridgeport, a short ride up I-95, where life couldn't be more different.

    FORBES: Incomes

  • Virgin Vodka had a short life on store shelves, squandering Branson's hope for a line of Virgin Vodka bars.

    FORBES: Red Baron

  • Perhaps, optimists might also hope, the British feel a twinge of collective remorse over the short, pitilessly scrutinised life of Prince William's mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • These stories had a "short shelf life, " says John Allen, CNN's senior Vatican analyst.

    FORBES: Media

  • Sun Life 's (nyse: SLF - news - people ) numbers were weak, and although Great-West Life's profit was up a little, it fell short of the forecasts.

    FORBES: Canadian Insurance Heating Up

  • But her book also tells a more universal story - of a mother's love and a mother's loss, and a tribute to a young life that was cut short before its time.

    BBC: Defence correspondent, BBC News

  • Hurley's career, however, was cut short due to the lingering effects of the life-threatening injuries he sustained in a car crash during his rookie NBA season.

    WSJ: Buffalo gets name power, hires Hurley as coach

  • Jeffrey Meyers has written a short and disappointing biography which distinguishes itself primarily by focusing on Orwell's sex life.

    ECONOMIST: Writers�� lives

  • And investors betting on rising rates could short the ETF, if shares were available to short, something that may not be possible early in the ETF's life.

    FORBES: A Bond Fund For Making A Killing

  • It's not remote - just two short ferry trips to cross the bay - but the pace of life soon slows.

    BBC: Here comes the sun in Sweden

  • Institutional investors, especially the country's troubled life insurers, who are keen to make a few yen by lending shares to short-sellers, are aiding them in this.

    ECONOMIST: Hedge funds in Japan

  • The 23-year-old's biggest obstacle is that "the shelf life for the average consumer is very, very short, " according to Bob Williams, chief executive of Evanston, Ill.

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  • As ever, what kept a woman pure was the drudge's life, of which Juvenal supplied the traditional formula: "Hard work, short sleep, hands chafed and hardened" from housework.

    WSJ: Still Under Cleopatra's Spell

  • If the first six months of a child's life matter as much as most people think they do, then spending even that short time together could influence the result of a twins study.

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  • For freight managers, however, there is no comfort: some of these plans will make life harder, and nothing short-term (except relaxation of Austria's controls, already asked for, but not so far granted) can make it easier.

    ECONOMIST: Transalpine tunnels

  • But Mr Berlusconi's vote fell short of the 45% he had predicted, following a media furore over his private life.

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  • "Life was too short for Roger to be defeated by illness, so when Roger's body became weak, we saw how his mind become sharper, " Emanuel said.

    CNN: Roger Ebert gets final 'thumbs up' from family, friends

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