Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...application essay gives candidates their only opportunity to personalize an otherwise quantitative file of information. "Present yourself and your qualifications as you wish in a brief statement below," the form directs, allowing two pages for the response. Geraghty notes that students who begin along the lines of "Law is an integral part of modern democratic society" tend to fare poorly in the final judgment...
...pound PC Portable is similar in function and capability to the PC, but is a one-piece unit that folds into an oversized brief case...
Right now he is intent on conquering America. Although he has made brief commando raids into the U.S., never before has he attempted to become the star here that he is almost everywhere else. "No non-Anglo Saxon performer has been able to sell music in America," he says. "I want to make a bridge between Latin music and American music that others can cross afterward. In the music business the U.S. is tops. A No. 1 song here goes all over the world. I have taken a risk in coming here, and I have put my challenge in front...
American automobile production is only as old as the century: in that brief span the car has probably changed our lives as much as any invention in all the previous epochs. It was time that some courageous museum looked in the rear-view mirror and mounted a show to celebrate and lament those alterations. The exhibit is called "Automobile and Culture," and it is housed in the new Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA...
Pity the genre novelist who embarks on a different course. For more than 25 years, Françoise Sagan has published brief, ironic tales of love lost or betrayed. She is a supremely confident writer, both in her resolute economy of style and in her command of the milieu she describes: the frivolous, overwrought bourgeois society where emotion can be both teased and indulged...