Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never forgotten that. My grandmother was born in 1863, the year of the Emancipation, in Richmond, Virginia: when she came north to join her northern relative who had long been free she always referred to the Civil War as the "War of the Rebellion;" and she bore no sentimental brief for Robert E. Lee or for his kind. Eventually she settled here in Cambridge with her husband a local clergyman, and doubtless she walked within the shadows of Memorial Hall, perhaps taking the time from its clock tower. She knew that that building, then the largest academic building in North...
...film's most striking qualities is its scope. It reaches back into China's past, providing a brief but surprisingly comprehensive history of the Communist Party and its hero, Mao Zedong. Outstanding archival footage (some of it dating back several decades) of lavish parades and boisterous rallies effectively conveys the Chinese people's devotion to the Party and its ideals...
...confidential documents concerning the Whitewater investigation. Those materials detailed a Small Business Administration criminal investigation of Clinton antagonist David Hale, an Arkansas judge; impeding the probe in any way would have been illegal. Investigators reviewed Eggleston's phone records, which indicate he left a message for Lindsey offering to brief him on the SBA papers. Lindsey was handling Whitewater press inquiries for the White House. But while Eggleston maintained that doing so would not have been improper, he stated that as far as he can remember, the meeting never took place, since they were too busy...
...Friday morning the Speaker was brooking no dissent. "He walked in and told us to sit down and stop the side conferences," said several members who were there. After a brief explanation of his plan to return 760,000 workers to the payroll, Gingrich urged their support and unveiled his threats. "If you don't vote for it, don't come to me..."--he paused for a long and very pregnant moment before continuing--". and talk about teamwork. If you think you should be Speaker of the House, then run for Speaker. I'm here to tell you this...
...brief question-and-answer session after his speech, Lugar suggested that his sagging poll numbers have to do with a lack of name recognition among voters...