Guan, the youngest Masters competitor ever, hit his drives on average 10 yards shorter than the next shortest competitor who made the cut, and 42 yards shorter than the leader, Robert Garrigus.

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Diana had done something with her hair, cut it shorter.

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Cut it shorter, trim his sideburns.

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The great corporate labs were housed at companies like 3M, Eastman Kodak, General Electric and DuPont, and science historians consider the 1930s through the 1950s their golden age--before deadlines for profit-making became shorter and lab budgets were cut.

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"To our complete surprise, we found several red dwarf binaries with orbital periods significantly shorter than the 5-hour cut-off found for sun-like stars, something previously thought to be impossible, " the study's lead author Bas Nefs, from Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, said in a statement.

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He predicts stimulus moves funded by extra borrowing - such as the VAT cut - will see a "shorter and shallower" slowdown than feared.

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Orwell said that a long word should never be used when a shorter equivalent existed, and that redundant words should always be cut out.

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The same studies that document the power of the social network have also shown that, when people are cut off from the network, they lead much shorter lives.

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Zander understood that this is a new millennium and floundering toward group decisions just doesn't cut it in the new global economy rife with theft of intellectual property and shorter product cycles.

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