* the Autopista Nacional ( A1 ) from Havana to Santa Clara and Sancti Spiritus, with additional short sections near Santiago and Guantanamo

The received Tao Te Ching is a short text of around 5, 000 Chinese characters in 81 brief chapters or sections ().

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Some short sections have a speed limit of.

Such holes were often reinforced with short sections of timber about 500mm to 700mm long on the outside of the hull.

The premiere feature of the game is its " Geo-Mod " technology, short for " geometry modification ", which provided destructible environments, allowing the player to destroy certain sections of the scenery in the game.

This adapts Thucydides ' text, together with short sections from Plato's dialogues.

According to a 2012 Financial Times article, hedge funds are increasingly making most of the short term trades in large sections of the capital market ( like the UK and US stock exchanges ), which is making it harder for them to maintain their historically high returns, as they are increasingly finding themselves trading with each other rather than with less sophisticated investors.

These special transition joints have several short sections of special types of glass fused together between the metal and the usual type of glass, each having more gradual changes in thermal expansion coefficients.

This meant it had to rely on short manoeuvrability tests, regularity sections and night map-reading navigation to find a winner, which made it unattractive to foreign crews.

Within a short period of time, the top and bottom sections of the letter were decoded.

George Silver, an English fencer who wrote two books ( 1599, 1605 ) including lengthy sections on staff fighting does not use the term " quarterstaff ", but instead calls it a " short staff " ( as opposed to the " long staff ").

Bead lightning is a type of cloud-to-ground lightning which appears to break up into a string of short, bright sections, which last longer than the usual discharge channel.

As the island is relatively narrow and in most sections has a northern and southern route that are serviced, access to the system is usually within a short distance.

Abbreviations are popular with crossword compilers for clueing individual letters or short sections of the answer.

The short pamphlet noted the importance of dedicated hand grenade, rifle grenade and machine gun sections in suppressing enemy strong points with an appropriate level of fire to permit other military units to advance.

:" Loops are short sections of tracks ( probably between one and four bars in length ), which you believe might work being repeated.

As time was so short Meisel repeated sections of the score.

Fisher's idea that the auto industry and private contributions could pay for the highway was soon abandoned, and, while the LHA did help finance a few short sections of roadway, LHA founders ' and members ' contributions were used primarily for publicity and promotion to encourage travel on the Highway and to lobby officials at all levels to support its construction by governments.

Unlike novels, they are not divided into chapters, and are often intended to be read at a single sitting, as the short story, although white space is often used to divide the sections.

New York boasts a few similar sections, as well as two short expressway sections near Albany.

* Class 4 can involve short steep sections where the use of a rope is recommended, and un-roped falls could be fatal.

The project involved electrification of the surface lines ( operated by steam trains at the time ), the doubling of the original single-line section between Finchley Central and the proposed junction with the Edgware branch of the Northern line, and the construction of three new linking sections of track: a connection between Northern City Line and Finsbury Park station on the surface ; an extension from Archway to the LNER line near East Finchley via new deep-level platforms below Highgate station ; and a short diversion from just before the LNER's Edgware station to the Underground's station of the same name.

Naturally, enterprises of the size of General Electric are in a position to structure their prices in such a way that the relatively small competitors can be forced to the wall in a very short time.

alt = A short dry-stone wall retains boulders to form a cairn.

The rear wall of the stoa contains nearly a thousand inscriptions ; supposedly any slave manumitted in Athens was obliged to record a short biography here, explaining why he had deserved his freedom.

Buttresses are short wing walls at right angles to the main trend of the wall.

Since the city authorities would not allow the new line to breach the customs wall, still standing at the time, it had to stop just short, at Potsdamer Platz, but it was this that kick-started the real transformation of the area, into the bustling focal point that Potsdamer Platz would eventually become.

He has a thin skin and a short temper ( especially about his height ), and main characters often find themselves chained to the wall or the rack if they thoughtlessly insult the king.

The other three defenders form a horizontal " wall " or line across the field in front of the handler to stop throws to short in-cuts and prevent forward progress.

Trigger manages to close the air valve for the tubes, but a second leak and valve are unexpectedly revealed, both behind a wall of pipes ; Trigger's arm can't reach, and his air hose is too short.

The tunnel led from H-Block 7 and was short of the perimeter wall.

The " service box " is formed by the short line — a solid red line running the court's width parallel to the front and back walls at a distance of 20 feet-and the service line parallels the short line and is 15 feet from the front wall.

Along with the short line, service line, and side wall these lines define the doubles box, where the non-serving doubles partner stands during the serve ; 36 inches from the side wall is another set of lines which, along with the short line and the service line, define an area that the server must not enter if he wishes to hit a drive serve between himself and the nearest side wall.

However, if the ball comes down too long or too short of the back wall, this can allow the opponent a kill shot.

For example, in Germany the totality of the complex German Democratic Republic border regime is commonly referred to with the short phrase " Mauer und Stacheldraht " ( that is, " wall and barbed wire "), and Amnesty International has a barbed wire in their symbol.

This is a typical work kitchen, too, unless the two other cabinet rows are short enough to place a table at the fourth wall.

alt = Front view of a cairn, from its right side, its boulders retained by a short wall that forms a courtyard at its entrance.

Now rather short, the wall used to be much taller for protection against surrounding tribes.

It was a good site because the River Nid twisted itself before going in to the fjord, creating a peninsula that could be easily defended against land attacks by just one short wall.

The term " sound bite " was coined in the 1970s, during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, who was famous for short, memorable phrases like, " Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Presently, short stretches of degraded perimeter wall still exist, but take some time to find because they are covered by houses or buildings, or partially demolished to less than a meter in height.