Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...classic counter-oppo fashion, Wilson hoped to extinguish the story quickly by making amends fast, rushing the Treasury a check for back taxes and late penalties. Though the story was embarrassing, its brief arc pleased campaign aides. By week's end Wilson's new campaign manager, Craig Fuller, was praising his boss for bravely tackling the issue "head...
Irving's final appearance for the Crimson was brief--the Minutemen got to the Miami native for three more in the fourth, chasing the ambidextrous hurler...
Kennedy's wit is astounding; she starts the paper off at a brisk clip, with a brief, but precise, justification of her topic: "Every dog must have its day: this thesis is about Rousseau's dog." "Kennedy goes on to explain her treatment of the poor creature, "By 'dog' I will mean, first, the dog as metaphor, the dog as such in Rousseau's thought. Second, there are Rousseau's actual dogs, of whom he was very fond...
...what proved to be a bomb outside a computer store in Salt Lake City, Utah, and helped police produce a composite sketch of a white man, now in his 40s, about 6 ft. tall, with light hair, a moustache and glasses. Nearly two years ago, the bomber sent a brief, cryptic note to the Times in which he described himself only as an "anarchist." Besides the sketch of the Unabomber and his letters, just about the only clues are the locations of his attacks, the identities of his targets and the fragments of his trademark bombs...
...Time to Kill, and the only direction Grisham can see is up. Each of his first three best sellers doubled the sales of the previous one. Total sales of his six novels to date: 55 million copies. Worldwide box-office take for the three movies (The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client) made from his books: $572 million...