Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, we got assurances that our allies would pay for the war and that any interruption of our cozy prosperity would be minimal and brief. A few days later, Bush's proposed 1992 budget confirmed my worst suspicions--that war in the Gulf means business as usual on the homefront...
...Illinois legislature sent Chicago on the road to recovery with the School Reform Act (SRA). But the brief and troubled history of SRA shows that the road is a rocky one indeed. The state Supreme Court and Chicago's educational establishment have combined to block reform at every turn...
...article on the Guards for Army magazine. Jupa doubts that they can be defeated from the air. "They can disperse their brigades and dig in deeply," he says. "They are expert at decoys." Jupa predicts that even after heavy air bombardment, the Guards will put up a ferocious, if brief, fight in any ground war that follows...
Hollywood Bound?: Harvard Coach Peter Roby is becoming something of a celebrity these days. Yes, that is the Crimson mentor that you see making a brief statement during WBZ-TV's promotions for it's "24-hour news source" service...
Alarm clocks will jolt about 6700 students from their brief vacation mode this morning, as yet another semester gets underway...