Dubai has compressed decades' worth of real estate development into the last 15 years.
Packed into those compressed decades of Chuck Margiotta's time on Earth was a love of people and an unquenchable, if not dizzying, zeal for accomplishment.
Eric "felt the textural variation of slubs of chewing gum compressed by decades of traffic.
It compresses two decades of computer industry history into a straightforward if jargon-reliant account narrated by Susan Egan.
The core of the film compresses several decades of family history into a timeline that gives little indication of the year or even the decade.
Inaccuracies abound, largely due to the need to compress the decade-long hunt, create composite characters and make the whole thing work as a piece of drama.
In 2008, just in time for the dawning Obama age, he compressed his decades of scholarship into a pithy little book, "How Race Survived U.S. History," which has just been published in paperback (Verso; $19.95).
If I could compress the seven decades I have lived into seven days, this is what that week in my life would look like.
July was its worst month in more than two decades, compressing a year's losses into 23 trading days.
Indeed, Mr. Holmes himself conflates various controversies from Kosinski's life, imagines a few love scenes and compresses about two decades of events into a single year.
