Word: brief
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...doesn't really matter. The games, after a brief trial period, will return to normal...
...know that many of you have wondered about the brief hiatus that I have taken. The reason for my absence was that I was engaged in a governmental project which required some foreign travel. I was flown to the jungles of deepest Equatorial Africa in order to conduct a cross-cultural anthropological investigation of cinematic practices and mores among the !Pelikula bushmen. I realize that many of you are shaking your heads in incredulous disbelief. I have but three words for you doubting Thomases: Locws in everywhere...
...After a brief hiccup in the shot-put, where the Crimson had to settle for third place, Harvard took first place in seven out of the next 10 events, including both relays...
What is it with the peso crisis south of the border? Are we talking about a brief time-out in the hat dance of prosperity or a massacre at the investors' Alamo? If you listened to your broker a few months ago and bought Telefonos de Mexico, Cifra or Grupo Televisa -- or shares in a Mexico mutual fund -- should you be jumping out or staying...
...where the spies go depends on where the policymakers want to send them. Critics complain that the White House has provided little direction. The CIA launched a charm offensive immediately after Clinton was elected, sending its top analysts to Arkansas to brief the new President and letting him know that they were staying in one of Little Rock's cheapest motels. But Clinton has kept his distance from the agency. Woolsey complained that he was cut out of the White House inner circle. "People want the intelligence community to shrink, but at the same time they have more and more...