Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...missing the computer chip that said, 'Caution, you can't do this.'" The hotel also offered young Ron his first chance to sample the rewards of peddling influence. Until guests like Joe Louis got wind of the scheme and put a stop to it, he made a brief career of badgering famous guests for their autographs, then selling them to friends...
...What we really need is some sort of brief about them," he says. "They need to bring more awareness to the U.C. They need to tell us what they are trying...
...Lenin shrines, from his parents' apartments to his classroom to a modernistic museum complex on a bluff overlooking the river. The city is so resistant to political and economic reform that some Russians refer to it as a "communist preserve." It has been ruled since 1990, except for a brief interval, by its "Red Governor," Yuri Goryachev, who was once First Secretary of the region's Communist Party. He continues to operate in the peremptory style of a party boss from his colonnaded, four-story administration building on Lenin Square...
...words ascribed to Jesus in the Gospels may have actually been spoken by him. John was eliminated completely; only one sentence in Mark met muster. Of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, the only words in red were "Our Father" and "Love your enemies," and four other brief sayings...
...BRIEF DAY OF REST