Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Otisca was born at the wrong time in the wrong place. Other technologies and energy sources may leapfrog over the concept of a precleaned coal slurry. In that case, the Jamesville plant, Doug Keller and Clay Smith will be a brief, forgotten chapter in American industrial and environmental history. That would not be atypical. Nine out of 10 inventors never see a penny from their ideas. Far fewer get to be Henry Fords or Thomas Watsons...
...advice I have to offer incoming firstyears is brief, fragmentary and based entirely on what I did not do myself: Meet as many people as you can during Orientation Week, take advanced standing if you qualify and get your Cores out of the way as soon...
...Brief silence. An instant later, at least twothirds of the class whispered breathily, emphatically--erotically--and in union...
...couldn't blame the spiel for my (irrational) decision to study engineering. That's right, folks, I settled upon engineering at the wizened old age of--you guessed it--17. brief lesson: if you're 17 and you think you know anything about life, you're wrong. Period...
...drown in the ocean of peace we love so much." French director Patrice Leconte, whose fine Monsieur Hire also dealt with romantic obsession, has devised a chamber fable about a man's infantile charm and a woman's nurturing sexuality. The movie is like the couple's love: pure, brief, passionate, heartbreaking...