Word: brief
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Leaving Kendall Square, the group crossed the Longfellow Bridge into Boston. After another brief die-in in Leverett Circle, the protesters continued towards Government Center...
...reference in the legal brief was tantalizingly obscure, like a clue in a board game. Neil Bush, the government lawyers claimed, "is again engaged in a venture with an individual to whom he looks for assistance in financing his obligations . . . the prospect of recurrent problems does not seem remote...
Wherever there is sincerity, though, hypocrisy generally tags along. For a warmup, a brief list of the Year's Best Euphemisms for Recession...
Czechoslovakia's brief ethnic feud also illustrated the hair-trigger sensitivities that vex Eastern Europe. Slovaks, who account for a third of the nation's 15 million people, have long nursed a sense of victimization. Wary of Czech domination, Slovak leaders hinted at secession unless Prague agreed to extensive decentralization of core institutions, from the national bank to oil pipelines to management of minority affairs...
...last Monday, Bennett was saying his earlier remarks had been "overinterpreted." White House aides tried to revise recent history by implying that Bennett had overstated his brief. No decision had been made about politicking on quotas in the future, they maintained. Bennett's withdrawal from the chairmanship was not immediately related to the issue. The main cause was the belated realization by Bennett and White House counsel Boyden Gray that conflicts of interest would be a far more serious problem than earlier thought...