• Film-maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has become the first Pakistani to win an Oscar nomination for best documentary in the short subject category.

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  • She won the award for best documentary in the short subject category for her film Saving Face, about acid attacks on women.

    BBC: Pakistan's Oscar triumph for acid attack film Saving Face

  • Remove the indie "Beasts of the Southern Wild" from the list, by comparison a short subject at 93 minutes, and the average running time jumps to 141 long minutes, a length that sorely tests the ever-shortening patience of most viewers not to check their phones for texts.

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  • In short, if subject matter expertise were the key to solving the problem, the organizations we work with would have already solved it.

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  • Diener and Joshua Hagen, makes an excellent and, well, very short introduction to the subject.

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  • "All lines are now open, but services may still be subject to short notice delay, " said an Arriva spokesperson.

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  • There'll also be a short debate on a subject which will probably start to crop up rather a lot in Parliament - HS2.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • The former Austria Under-21 international had recently been on trial at the Banks's Stadium, and has agreed a short-term contract subject to receiving international clearance.

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  • Bernstein analyst Steve Powers said Coca-Cola and Pepsi are known to be conservative when it comes to buying and hedging commodities risk, making them less subject to short-term volatility.

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  • If you sell before a year has passed, you will be subject to the short-term capital gains rate.

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  • To claim a nonbusiness bad debt, you report it as a short-term capital loss subject to the capital loss limitations on a federal form 8949 (downloads as a pdf) in the year the debt becomes worthless.

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  • And they include Afghanistan, a subject which got relatively short shrift yesterday among the senators who were concerned about re-litigating the past.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Stern told CNN the Swiss company is not subject to shareholders demanding short-term results, and could therefore make decisions to benefit the company and its existing clients without facing time pressures.

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  • Inspectors also warned that increasing numbers were entering Britain on visas designed for short periods of study which were not subject to the same checks as those for longer courses.

    BBC: Student visas: UKBA 'failed to check' tip-offs

  • Just last week International Development Secretary Clare Short signalled continuing cabinet tensions on the subject when she warned that the UN Security Council alone should decide whether to take military action against Iraq.

    BBC: Blair faces Commons Iraq test

  • Mr Rigby, who last month pledged to fund the station in the short-term, said his proposal was subject to commercial confidentiality but has now revealed some "common sense" elements of his scheme.

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  • When the subject of priests is raised, most Catholics are not short of solutions.

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  • On the other hand, you should accelerate ordinary income or short-term capital gains into 1999, because these will be subject to the lower AMT rate.

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  • Nasty, brutish, and short, as her third husband had said, quoting Hobbes on the subject of natural man.

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  • Short-term, the Dow has been up for ten straight days, and has again become short-term overbought above its 50-day moving average, and subject to another pull-back from that overbought condition.

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  • It seems like a short time ago that Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, subject of the best-selling book Moneyball, first employed a new school of analysis that placed added value on statistics like on-base percentage while devaluing more traditional numbers like batting average and stolen bases.

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  • As the famous theory of Diamond and Dybvig explained, institutions that have long-maturity assets with uncertain returns and short-maturity liabilities that are intended to be risk-free are innately subject to devastating runs.

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  • But that underestimates the problem because it does not include posts filled on short-term contracts or posts filled by teachers who are not specialists in the subject they have been asked to teach.

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  • But, despite Mr Brands's enthusiasm for his subject, such achievements still leave Jackson, as democrat and statesman, far short of the class of Abraham Lincoln.

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  • The more productive way to approach the subject, however, is to consider the problem of long-range thinking in short-range matters.

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  • Reorganize into three distinct parts: the single-volume Propaedia (an outline of the series), 10 volumes of Micropaedia (short articles) and 19 tomes of Macropaedia (longer contributions), which made looking up any subject an infuriating task.

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  • Many resources are subject to collective action problems: if each actor pursues what is in his or her short-term interest, things will go much less well than if all agree to abide by rules that are in the common interest.

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  • Menzel said he immediately queried "ninja" on the Google search engine and found not only scores of short, written descriptions of what a ninja is and does, but also a book on the subject that could be read online and a video of guys acting like ninjas.

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  • Our collective weariness is the subject of several new books, some by professionals who study sleep, others by amateurs who are short of it.

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  • Shackell was the subject of a bid from Wolves earlier in the summer, but at the time the Canaries were short of defensive options.

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