Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there was political interference in the deliberations, but he refuses to discuss the substance of periodic conference calls with Katie McGinty, the White House's environmental- policy director. "Politics is not our bag," he says. Still, two weeks ago, Thomas and forester Jerry Franklin were flown to Washington to brief anxious members of Congress from the Northwest. The meeting was described as "tense...
...Sources in the D.A.'s office say he's told friends he's headed for Harvard's Kennedy School of Government," a brief in Newsweek reported...
...playing smart guys: young men with cute brain waves who can make intelligence and idealism sexy. He and the pricey cast (Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Wilford Brimley) make the machinery purr. The writers have corrected the book's dangling threat -- how to confront and cleverly resolve Mitch's brief disloyalty to Abby -- and its stodgy ending. The movie's moral is that however corrupt the Mob is, these lawyers are worse. Better for Mitch to cut a deal with a don than to let the firm stay in business...
...Boston Globe, citing anonymous sources, first reported the talks in Wednesday's editions. A report in yesterday's Wall Street Journal was based on a brief comment from a spokesperson for Brigham and Women's Hospital, who was reported to say that the hospitals had agreed to a "six-month planning process on closer affiliation...
Grisham reportedly was very unhappy about the changes. He shouldn't have been, though. For the reworking of "The Firm" solves almost all of the holes in the original plot. Mitch's brief infidelity in the Cayman Islands is a much more explosive issue here. Mitch and Abby's estrangement, which leads to her helping Mitch without his knowledge, adds additional emotional punch to the plot...