Word: brief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...landed a great summer job in New York and had a brief fling with a wonderful man. She came back in September full of confidence and blamed her freshman disaster on bad luck and bad timing. But sophomore year wasn't much different at first. She finally latched onto a compulsive government major and although she didn't like him too much, she pretended she did, particularly to herself. She was never very happy with him though and finally decided she couldn't put up with either him or his snoring any longer...
Aeroflot Flight SU 297 from Moscow was slightly ahead of schedule. The blue and white, three-engine Tupolev 154 taxied to a stop on the tarmac some 200 yards from the main terminal at Madrid's Ba rajas Airport. After a brief delay, the doors opened and a frail figure in black descended the forward boarding ladder. At exactly 7:54 p.m. last Friday, Dolores Ibarruri, 81, La Pasionaria* of Spanish Civil War fame and president of the Spanish Communist Party, set foot on Spanish soil for the first time in 38 years...
What happened? The reasons for the slump may spell out a cautionary tale for coffee producers, who now seem to be passing the peak of a price climb as dizzying as the one in sugar in 1974. In brief, consumers did rebel: American per capita consumption last year was less than 95 lbs., down 8½ lbs. from 1973. At the same time, growers, enticed by the high prices, overplanted, and are now turning out more sugar than anyone wants to buy. World production in the crop year ending Aug. 31 is forecast to be 87.7 million tons...
...ideas and images. Certainly the allegations put forward are serious and deserve careful and thoughtful consideration. In evaluating these allegations, the representatives who met had vigorous and frank discussions about the material in question. It is then the purpose of this report to present a brief account of the issues in debate, an opinion of the arguments and material put forward and suggestions for the future...
...majority to hear their arguments (TIME, May 2). Attorneys for the defense suggested that the news leak, which Totenberg claims originated with "seven separate sources," may have prejudiced their clients' chances by freezing the Justices in place. They asked for permission to explain their position in a supplementary brief. Last week the high court formally rejected that suggestion without dissent or comment. A final decision on the petitions has been delayed until at least next week...