Among them, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, are: ( 1 ) shorter work weeks, ( 2 ) higher pay, ( 3 ) longer paid vacations, ( 4 ) better transportation, ( 5 ) earlier retirement, and ( 6 ) more education.

Alligators differ from crocodiles principally in having wider and shorter heads, with more obtuse snouts ; in having the fourth, enlarged tooth of the under jaw received, not into an external notch, but into a pit formed for it within the upper one ; in lacking a jagged fringe which appears on the hind legs and feet of the crocodile ; in having the toes of the hind feet webbed not more than half way to the tips ; and an intolerance to salinity, alligators strongly preferring fresh water, while crocodiles can tolerate salt water due to specialized glands for filtering out salt.

Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise, which " fell stillborn from the press ," as he put it, and so tried again to disseminate his more developed ideas to the public by writing a shorter and more polemical work.

This meant the Electron had a lifespan not much shorter than those more popular micros and much longer than competitors such as the Oric-1 and Dragon 32.

Considered a " dogfight Sparrow ", the AIM-7E-2 was intended to be used at shorter ranges where the missile was still travelling at high speeds, and in the head-on aspect, making it much more useful in the visual limitations imposed on the engagements.

The latest AIM-120D AMRAAM has a significantly lower range of about, but the AMRAAM is much shorter, lighter, and more flexible in its use against a wide variety of targets, including fighter planes, bombers, helicopters, patrol planes, and reconnaissance planes.

Many species undertake long distance annual migrations, and many more perform shorter irregular movements.

Third base is a shorter throw for the catcher, and thus more difficult to steal, though a right-handed batter can sometimes help by serving as an obstacle that the catcher must throw around.

Moreover, this disposition – concave in relation to the Allied army – gave Marlborough the opportunity to form a more compact line, drawn up in a shorter front between the ‘ horns ’ of the French crescent ; when the Allied blow came it would be more concentrated and carry more weight.

They have fewer teeth and shorter skulls, with much more specialized carnassials meant for shearing meat.

A cable code replaces words ( e. g., ship or invoice ) with shorter words, allowing the same information to be sent with fewer characters, more quickly, and most important, less expensively.

The line is going to be entirely electrified and in order to speed up the journey even more shall be long from end to end, shorter than the existing line.

Two airports are more than 3, 047 meters in length, nine are 2, 438 – 3, 047 meters, 39 are 1, 524 – 2, 437 meters, 38 are 914 – 1, 523 meters, 12 are shorter than 914 meters, and 880 have unpaved runways.

Road bikes tend to have a more upright shape and a shorter wheelbase, which make the bike more mobile but harder to ride slowly.

Another pennant winner did not come until their championship season of 2005, when the White Sox won their first World Series championship in 88 years, breaking their epochal drought only a year after the Boston Red Sox had broken their slightly shorter but more celebrated " curse.

The US M1 Carbine was more of a traditional carbine in that it was significantly shorter and lighter, with a 457. 2 mm ( 18 in.

A shorter weapon was more convenient when riding in a truck, armored personnel carrier, helicopter or aircraft, and also when engaged in close-range combat.

A less-powerful weapon would still produce casualties at the shorter ranges encountered in actual combat, and the reduced recoil would allow more shots to be fired in the short amount of time an enemy was visible.

Compared to " regular " carbines / rifles ( such as those in. 223 and 7. 62x39mm ), pistol-caliber carbines may suffer from a shorter effective range, more pronounced trajectory, less power, and less effectiveness against body armor.

Eastern European wolves tend to be shorter and more heavily built than Northern Russian ones.

Many famous Bilal comics made their English debut in this period of the magazine, although shorter stories appeared later also.

* Frame tale, whereby the main story is composed, at least in part, for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories.

If Hawke is serious ... he'd do well to work awhile in less exposed venues, perhaps focusing on shorter stories and submitting them to little magazines.

As the finished episodes became longer, the production team were reluctant to cut the stories in order to allow for the long title sequence, so shorter versions of it were developed.

The new series was published in standard comic-book size, and in it Hernandez focused on shorter stories that didn't rely on continuity.

His later novels include La Terre promise ( 1892 ); Cosmopolis ( 1892 ), a psychological novel, with Rome as a background ; Une Idylle tragique ( 1896 ); La Duchesse bleue ( 1897 ); Le Fantôme ( 1901 ); Les Deux Sœurs ( 1905 ); and some volumes of shorter stories — Complications sentimentales ( 1896 ), the powerful Drames de famille ( 1898 ), and Un Homme d ' affaires ( 1900 ).

In 1882, Loti issued a collection of four shorter pieces, three stories and a travel piece, under the general title of Fleurs d ' ennui ( Flowers of Boredom ).

The stories have gotten shorter and are now just quaint colloquialisms and idioms ( think of the string of phrases punctuated by " AND " in Episode 4 ).

Their stories are measured in seconds, not column inches, and thus ( even with footage ) television stories are inherently shallower than most newspaper stories, using shorter words and familiar idioms to express ideas which a newspaper writer is more free to expand upon and define with precision.

In genre fiction anthology is used to categorize collections of shorter works such as short stories and short novels, usually collected into a single volume for publication.

He is best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series of " Paratime " alternate history tales.

A much shorter series of alternate history stories is Piper's Paratime sequence, collected in Paratime, followed by the novel Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen.

Long feature stories are heard here, or as many as four shorter stories or commentaries may be heard as well.

If a film is based on a story shorter than a novel — such as a short story, novelette, or novella — a tie-in book may be published featuring the adapted story as well as other stories from the same author.

It also contains one-offs, shorter stories, surrealist jokes, and more.

News stories in the tabloid style tend to be much shorter than those in other newspapers, and the language Sun journalists use tends to be simpler and more conversational than language used in other newspapers.

A shorter 90-second bulletin, known as IRN 90, was introduced on the IRN2 channel comprising stories aimed at younger, pop music stations.

A collection of short stories, parodying various science fiction, fantasy fiction and detective story writers has been published as He Do the Time Police in Different Voices ( 2003, incorporating the earlier and much shorter 1988 parody collection The Dragonhiker's Guide to Battlefield Covenant at Dune's Edge: Odyssey Two ).

Instead, he focused on a story set in the future and placed the three shorter stories, " authored " by Knecht in The Glass Bead Game at the end of the novel.

There are a number of novels and shorter stories dealing with love as Eros and on the higher level of divine love in the spirit of romanticism ( Eros und die Evangelien, Menschenwege, Narren und Helden, etc.

However, Michael W. Holmes has pointed out that it is not certain " that Papias knew the story in precisely this form, inasmuch as it now appears that at least two independent stories about Jesus and a sinful woman circulated among Christians in the first two centuries of the church, so that the traditional form found in many New Testament manuscripts may well represent a conflation of two independent shorter, earlier versions of the incident.

Manga and anime are usually good examples of arc-based stories, to the point that most series shorter than 26 chapters are a single arc spanning all the chapters.