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That integrated system means that the health care and pension of those workers doesn't depend on winning the lottery of being on a hit show; as long as they work, whether consistently on one hit show or on a bunch of shorter-lived ones, they and their families are taken care of.

Nathan Newman: How the Googlization of Television Will Destroy High Wage, Union Hollywood Nathan Newman 2012

Cheerful children, alas, turned out to be shorter-lived than their more sober classmates.

How to Keep Going and Going Laura Landro 2011

That integrated system means that the health care and pension of those workers doesn't depend on winning the lottery of being on a hit show; as long as they work, whether consistently on one hit show or on a bunch of shorter-lived ones, they and their families are taken care of.

Nathan Newman: How the Googlization of Television Will Destroy High Wage, Union Hollywood Nathan Newman 2012

He then genetically engineered the mutant proteins into fruit flies and showed that the less soluble the protein, the less coordinated and the shorter-lived were the fruit flies.

Connecting the Pieces of the Alzheimer's Puzzle Matt Ridley 2011

Smog would be shorter-lived: pollutants like methane and formaldehyde would be more rapidly lost to reaction with atmospheric oxygen.

mikandra: help me speculate mikandra 2010

When asked on Tuesday why he didn't hire a star for his short-lived revival of "Ragtime," which earned seven nominations, or for the even shorter-lived "Brighton Beach Memoirs," producer Manny Azenberg replied: "Because I was stupid."

Tony Nominations Raid Oscars' Rolodex 2010

True, the EU relaxed state aid rules for the industry after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks led to a similar, but shorter-lived, disruption to air travel.

Reform, Not Aid, For EU Airline Sector 2010

By contrast, most other gases and impacts – such as the vapour trails and tropospheric ozone produced by planes at altitude – cause much more potent but shorter-lived bursts of warming.

The surprisingly complex truth about planes and climate change 2010

There are several attractive features of the MSR fuel cycle, including: high-level waste comprising fission products only, hence shorter-lived radioactivity; small inventory of weapons-fissile material (Pu-242 being the dominant Pu isotope); low fuel use (the French self-breeding variant claims 50kg of thorium and 50kg 238U per billion kWh); and enhanced safety due to passive cooling in any size reactor.

Fast neutron reactors (FBR) 2009

The fission products are removed in reprocessing and resultant wastes are shorter-lived than usual.

Fast neutron reactors (FBR) 2009