Word: briefings
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Although AIDS is not directly at issue, the Federal Government has raised the matter. In support of the school board, it filed a brief citing the controversial Justice Department opinion issued last June to guide federal agencies regarding AIDS-related discrimination. While agreeing that under the law AIDS is a handicap, Justice officials decreed that contagiousness is not. Therefore, they contended, it is permissible to discriminate on the basis of concern over contagion, even if that concern is groundless and irrational. In the Shuttleworth case, Broward County is using arguments that run parallel to those in the Justice guidelines. "They...
...Monday Meese went to the White House early to brief the President and late in the day interviewed Vice President George Bush. Bush later told TIME he is convinced the "President is telling the full and total truth" (see interview). That afternoon the NSC met as scheduled, but the problems that had surfaced in Meese's inquiry were not discussed in detail...
...when Paris Review editors send John Barth a check and additional questions to beef up a woefully brief interview, the author of the 800-page The Sot-Weed Factor returns the emolument with a curt note: "It doesn't displease me to hear that our interview will be perhaps the shortest one you've run. In fact, it's a bit shorter now than it was before (enclosed). Better not run it by me again...
...brief cease-fire cast an eerie silence over the plane as it winged like a giant silver bird into the firy glow of the North American sunset. The atmosphere grew oddly contemplative...
Harvard held only one, brief lead in the match, 2-1, before finally yielding a tough round one, 5-4, to the Judges. Round two was even tougher for Harvard, as it was blown away, 7-2, and slipped behind in the match...