The process takes a matter of seconds and lines for registered users are usually shorter, saving valuable time at the airport.

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In general, the opportunities for reform are limited barring a radical change to our election process that would make our system look more like Europe -- where elections are usually shorter, cheaper and publicly funded.

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Area denial refers to those actions and capabilities, usually of shorter range, designed not to keep an opposing force out, but to limit its freedom of action within the operational area.

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The point is to let corporations or municipalities issue long-term instruments at the lower rates usually associated with shorter-term instruments.

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"In practice, it's hard to simulate how tall they really are, " said Indiana's Jordan Hulls, a 6-foot senior who was at least 4 inches shorter than the players usually guarding him and went 0 for 6 on 3-point tries.

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On his frequent business trips he buys a coach ticket if the flight is shorter than six hours (it no doubt helps that he usually gets upgraded), and he travels on weekends.

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He was shorter than he used to be, as adults we remember from childhood usually are.

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Usually, according to past U.S. captains, they preferred wide fairways, with shorter grass in the rough surrounding the fairway.

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