Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that brief moment in Loker, Chelsea was--and still is--just one of the hundreds of thousands of talented and hopeful high school seniors who visit campuses across the country looking for a place to fit in and to explore. She moved cautiously and curiously, trying hard to imagine what it would be like spend four years in this wonderful place--worrying about Cores and blocking groups, going to freshman mixers and spring break getaways, cheering loudly in Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Day four years from...
...dozen times in his short speech, which concluded with, "Tomorrow we greet the dawn and begin our work anew"--as if six long months of a nation's listening to Bob Dole's gothic baritone and Clinton's pleading lilt had been a sideshow that ended in one brief act of citizenship. Now the President and the people could return to the course they had agreed upon. Is this what the election was all about...
...Etheridge Democrat--North Carolina 2nd Etheridge brought this district back from its brief Republican tenure by attacking his opponent's stances on Medicare and federal student loans...
...cloudy morning last December, as the white light of winter picked its way across the face of Mount Rainier, William H. Gates III, chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., rolled out of bed after a brief night's sleep. There was no time for breakfast. He showered, pulled on his customary slacks, open-necked shirt and sweater, and climbed into his Lexus for the 20-minute drive from his suburban Bellevue, Washington, home to the Seattle convention center...
...three years which comprise coach Tim Murphy's brief tenure at Harvard, this season is perhaps the most pivotal. He has firmly established his offensive and defensive schemes, and most of his starters are players he recruited over his first two seasons...