A Tesla official said it was the Times' characterization, not Musk's, that he left immediately afterward, but that Musk did cut short his participation in wedding festivities scheduled to last several days.
Ms. Harris, who served as a co-chairwoman of the Bush campaign in Florida, may be maneuvering to rule that the manual counting is unjustified and in so doing cut short the exercise before Vice President Gore picks up additional votes.
After a public outcry over the large contract with Halliburton, the Pentagon did cut short the agreement after less than a year and $2.4 billion in expenditures and put the remaining work out for bid.
Kneale later claimed that the BBC's transmission controllers had threatened to take them off the air during one significant overrun, to which Cartier replied, "Just let them try!" Some BBC documentation suggests that at least one transmitter region did cut short the broadcast of the final episode.
Does Mr. Obama cut short his campaign swing, or continue to rally his supporters against Mr. Romney amid images of mass evacuations and property damage?
"I feel like life does get cut short," said Michael Bolton, 47, a black man with perilously high blood pressure whose father died of a heart attack at 49. "I've lost a lot of people I grew up with.
Reality Check: Does pollution cut short 40,000 lives a year?
Does pollution cut short 40,000 lives a year?
"I was with a client who wants to buy a villa," she said, "and when that happens, you don't cut short the meeting".
They argued that with popular anger against Mr. Aristide running so high, they could accept no compromise that did not cut short his presidency.
