Word: brief
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This unique accessibility may be short-lived, however. In the brief time since De Gennaro moved into his Widener office, he notes, "I've made an enormous amount of changes...
...years later in Austria, she took home a silver and two bronzes in her first Olympics. After a brief injury, she came back better than ever in 1988, taking away two silvers (the gold seemed within reach when she was ahead for one run, but the dream faded after she took a fall on the course...
...Graham Allison was extremely intelligent and visible. Putnam was put her too brief a time [two years] to leave a specific imprint...[but] he was very concerned about academic standards," says Marvin Kalb, Murrow professor of press and public policy...
...Peter J. Gomes welcomed the seniors and gave a brief history of the service. The church choir then performed a song written for Harvard's 1793 Commencement Exercises...
Some firms have found that the best way to survive Chapter 11 is to escape it as swiftly as possible. The Days Inns motel chain brought 1,200 franchises out of Chapter 11 in January after a relatively brief 17-month stay. "A lot of bankruptcies just go on forever," says John Snodgrass, who heads the franchise operations. "But the judge made sure we didn't get bogged down and drawn out. It really serves no one but attorneys to continue in bankruptcy for a lengthy period of time. It can't be healthy for a business to do that...