Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battle is the payoff, as the ancient saying goes, and only battle can settle the question of what a war between the U.S.-led alliance and Iraq would be like. Would it be a brief though explosive clash in which American air power would quickly prevail with relatively light casualties? A long, grinding struggle on the ground with the killed and wounded on both sides counted in the scores of thousands? Or something in between...
...unconstitutional. "Now we have the government supporting a gag order on material the government gathered," said Jane Kirtley, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. "It's frightening." Warned CNN's counsel Floyd Abrams: "The risk of this decision is that courts will order more brief prior restraints. From a journalism perspective, even a day or two can be an eternity...
...voice rising, he ticked off a list of miseries and inquired if she was aware that she was leaving the country "in such a shambles." Murmurs of approval from the Labour benches. Thatcher quickly stood up and tartly replied to the Right Honourable Janner, "He can speak to any brief, and I don't believe he believes a word of it." Roars of delight from the Tory side...
Whatever the provenance of the recordings, their squelching by Judge Hoeveler opened a second front in the court battle. A number of publishers, including the Time Inc. Magazine Co., TIME's parent organization, and the New York Times Co., filed an amicus brief in support of CNN's petition to be freed from the restraining order. A similar brief was filed by several major television networks. Says Jane Kirtley, director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: "News organizations are in the business of exposing governmental misconduct, and that's what CNN has done...
...rise through the ranks -- an odyssey that carried her from the days when she was expected to sew her own uniform in the police academy to an era in which the chief is inundated with baby showers. Despite her badge, Watson was mostly involuntarily shielded from hazardous duty. Her brief rotation to the SWAT team meant that she worked the radio. Her husband Robert, seemingly content with his own status as a police sergeant, had to coax her into bucking for each promotion. In 1980, when as a detective she was prematurely transferred out of the burglary division because...