Word: briefings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Gorbachev, dressed in a gray suit and red striped tie, spoke for 20 minutes, a relatively brief period, at the beginning of the nightly news program Vremya...
Spence, who sported a grey blazer, blue shirt and no tie, began the session with some brief comments, saying he is very pleased with the council's performance during the past few years and considers it a "viable organization...
Those who have not yet discovered the work of Elizabeth Jolley might well start with this novel. For one thing, it is brief, deceptively simple, eccentric and entirely in keeping with the comic, macabre nature of her best fiction. And it is nice to know that there is more where this comes from. The Newspaper of Claremont Street is the eighth Jolley book, including six other novels and a collection of stories, to be released in the U.S. in the past three years. Prior to 1984, she was one of Australia's best-kept literary secrets. Now her international reputation...
Heralded as a top foreign recruit, Hall had trouble getting NCAA sanction to play American college soccer. The national committee initially ruled him ineligible on account of his brief stint with a professional club in England. When Hall proved he had never been paid to play, the restriction was reduced to a six-game...
...definition prevents alcoholics from receiving benefit extensions awarded to veterans with illnesses. In seeking to make their case, the plaintiffs' lawyers are expected to bring up the new evidence that alcoholism may have a genetic basis. Says Kirk Johnson, general counsel for the A.M.A., which filed an amicus brief in the case: "We want a medical judgment, not a ruling based on fear, misunderstanding and prejudice...