Long/Short

Projects don’t go long, estimates come up short. There is a distinction to be made between the immovable and the movable.

How many piano tuners are there in Chicago? — more/less — so did the number of piano tuners increase/decrease, or was the guess wrong.

At some point we must look up from the map we have constructed and survey the territory before us: the discrepancy between the two is not the fault of the Earth.