41.   The company has also begun consolidating its business to shorten development time and boost productivity.

42.   The council also shortened the time needed to print the millions of ballots by contracting the work outside Haiti.

43.   The procedure appears to offer a permanent solution to fibroids, eliminates the need for general anesthesia and shortens recovery time when compared to surgery.

44.   This would enable judges to shorten the time needed for questioning witnesses or to dispense with them altogether, a statement from the tribunal said.

45.   With good behavior, the time could be shortened to about two years.

46.   The report said off-floor trading shortened transaction time and reduced mistakes and disputes between investors and brokers.

47.   Under the plan, NASDA would shorten the time needed to develop satellites from the current five years, the spokesman said.

48.   Overflights for some Asian destination-bound flights from Europe and the United States could shorten flight times by as much as one and a half hours.

49.   Testing circuits attached to the DRAM chips shortened the time taken to detect defects in memory cells, officials said.