Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Administration, senior officials have been urging the President to lay out a detailed urban strategy soon. TIME has learned that White House economic adviser Laura Tyson sent a confidential memo last week to all Cabinet Secretaries and top White House advisers, directing them to submit by Oct. 23 a brief summary of one policy they think would improve the economic conditions of people living in poor urban areas. In Congress, six members asked the President to appoint a commission on race relations, an idea to which the White House has responded coolly...
Even when she gives congressional budgeting a brief tongue-lashing for the NEA's funding predicament, Wendy demurs rather than presenting herself as an authority. She lowers her voice as if to acknowledge a tacit understanding of what she is about to say. "You know what theater politics are like," she pines, leaning toward the front row, "so rather than blame the Newts of this world I look internally and ask what the liberals did wrong." She knows she's preaching to the converted and can get away with criticizing her own kind...
...President Lee Tung-hui and Taiwan were to cross the borderline, who can tell what would arise. Missile tests and rhetorical charges may just be the beginning. In case he failed to understand this from his brief experience as a Communist Party member himself when he was young. President Lee should always keep in mind, that the word "unpredictability" in some ways best describes mainland China's governmental policies throughout its short history as the People's Republic...
Stephanopoulos gave a brief summary of Greek history, from its beginnings as the world's first democracy to its current status as a smaller world power...
...single goal can mean the difference between winning a championship and being an also-ran. A single moment, a split-second reaction or a brief shift in momentum can determine who walks away with their heads held high. And it is in these situations that a team shows its true character, a character often reflective of its captain...