Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...larger controversies that almost forced the Games out of Nagano concerned downhill skiing. This dispute, resolved last December, dragged on for five years, creating obviously less-than-friendly relations between the Nagano Organizing Committee (NAOC) and the International Ski Federation (FIS). In brief, the NAOC, headed by Makoto Kobayashi, had been strongly opposed to a bid by the FIS to raise the start of the downhill event in Nagano by 120 meters to 1,800 meters. According to CNN, Kobayashi stated that doing so would "break environmental laws by putting it into a national park which covers part...
...knowledge, Henry James the novelist never attended Harvard College, and his only formal education was a brief stint at Harvard Law School when he was 19. (In 1899, when he graduated from college, according to the article, he was 56.) Were law students involved with The Crimson at that time, or is this a different Henry James you're talking about? HILLARY N. STEVENS...
After a few brief comments by Councillor Kathleen L. Born, the council then voted five to four in support of Duehay's motion that the mayoral election stand...
...things, farm regulations. But he is no backwater attorney. In fact, his involvement may signal that Tripp has been building strong ties to the conservative community over the past few months. Moody came highly recommended by George Conway, a conservative lawyer who was instrumental in writing the brief that resulted in the 9-0 Supreme Court decision in favor of Paula Jones. Still, Conway denied last week that he ever met Tripp or Goldberg. He told TIME he heard "through the grapevine" that Tripp needed an attorney and made the recommendation. He wouldn't say to whom...
...humiliation. The perjury follows, even though the act--reprehensible though it might be--did not flow from official duty. No one should lie, but Big Brother shouldn't ask. This all comes by way of a prosecutor who before he took the appointment was ready to file an amicus brief supporting Paula Jones. Now he's her amicus, all right; the course of her case is in Starr's hands as much as anyone else...