Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Exxon's Manhattan headquarters was suddenly shattered last week by the howling of guitars and a raw-edged voice singing "You cut all the tall trees down, you poisoned the sky and the sea . . ." It was the music of Midnight Oil, the crusading Australian rock group, which staged a brief but high-decibel lunchtime concert below the company's windows. Between songs, lead singer Peter Garrett condemned Exxon's Alaskan oil spill. "You can't treat the world like a garbage dump," he said...
...This is like my third continent," says Knight. For a brief moment, you think he's kidding. Knight finds comfort in his sense of humor. And others find comfort...
...brief moment last spring, the "Goddess of Democracy" raised her lamp to illuminate the golden door of liberty. But that was before blood and fire stained Tiananmen Square...
...created to subsidize such big-ticket events and famous names. Its brief is diversity; it is not a ministry of culture with control over museums, theaters or operas. All it can do on $170 million a year is give seed-money grants to a wide variety of cultural projects, many of them small, marginal, obscure and quite outside the field of prestige corporate underwriting. About 85,000 of these grants, nearly 90% of them for less than $50,000 each, have been distributed since 1965. But, though seldom large, the NEA grant is a powerful magnet for corporate dollars...
...During a brief pushing match, an officer fell and injured his elbow, requiring four stiches to close the cut, Tempesta said. Harvard police then arrested Spooner and took him to the Cambridge police station...