Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last Wednesday night, almost exactly a week after TWA Flight 800 took its fiery plunge into the sea. Called away to the telephone just after finishing a chicken-piccata dinner at a Manhattan hotel, National Transportation Safety Board vice chairman Robert Francis returned a short while later with a brief smile and some promising news: the plane's two black boxes had been recovered...
...brief round-up of what I mean...
...parents are lawyers was enough to have me booted off the panel. Of course, I can't be sure why I was dismissed, because under the "peremptory challenge" rule, lawyers can simply get rid of a certain number of jurors without showing cause. In any event, so ended my brief experience as a juror in a gun possession case...
...brief moments last week, Bob Dole soared. after his self-destructive waffles about tobacco, assault weapons and abortion, Dole found in education reform an issue on which he and Bill Clinton disagree so fundamentally that the President's tactic of "me-tooing" Dole's proposals is simply not an option...
...building, neighbors have brief conversations in the elevators. But in the country, neighbors talk for hours in the shade of spacious front and back yards...