Word: brief
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...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...
...they done it so relentlessly. And seldom have they had such a wellspring of bigthink to draw on. There's Ben Wattenberg's Values Matter Most, read and admired by Clinton. There's "the politics of meaning," a phrase Hillary Rodham Clinton borrowed from philosopher Michael Lerner, creating a brief buzz that inspired him to make it the title of a recent book. There's Gertrude Himmelfarb's jeremiad The De-Moralization of Society, championed by Newt Gingrich. And there's former professor Bill ("Book of Virtues") Bennett, the Republicans' moralist-intellectual, who has crafted much of the moral language...
...noon that day, Panetta and McCurry presented Clinton with a draft of the brief comment he would issue about the Morris departure, saying Morris "is my friend, and he is a superb political strategist." Later the President, his wife and Vice President Gore would all make condolence phone calls to Morris. But for now the President had other things on his mind. He inked in a few revisions to the statement and returned to work on his speech. Says McCurry: "He just kept going." And going. In his acceptance speech Clinton passed over the whole episode without mention. But every...
When we landed, we drove to our apartment in Manhattan. I had a legal brief I had to get out to a client. Dick's a faster typist, so he typed it up for me. While we were in the apartment, that's when the President, the Vice President and the First Lady called. They had been trying to reach us in Connecticut...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: White House officials celebrated after Friday's Labor Department report that unemployment dropped in August to its lowest point since a brief period in 1989. Campaigning in Florida, President Clinton called the new figures "more good news . . . it's just the latest evidence: strong growth and the strongest consumer confidence in years." The jobless rate -->