Word: brief
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...gave each young musician a brief lesson, stressing each instrument's unique aspects and concluded with a discussion of communication and democracy in jazz...
...spent to raise more money. Large amounts are also spent on campaign staff, consultants, pollsters and fundraisers. The spending that voters do see often comes in the form of television advertising, both on cable stations and broadcast stations. Because broadcast advertisements on television are so expensive, it is often brief and, some consultants claim, ineffective. Thus, the very size of the campaigns does not mean that whoever wins will have bought the election. The problem with all the money is not that citizens' votes are being bought, but that the candidates' votes already have been...
Yesterday, on a cold afternoon punctuated by brief snow flurries, Harvard was unable to weather the flurry of Boston University's first-half offense at Nickerson Field...
Right before the third quarter was set to begin, a student in a "Scream" mask rushed onto the field, starved for attention. He ran around a while before an end zone cop approached him and motioned for him to leave. After stopping and listening to the police for a brief moment, the man sprinted off again, clearing a small fence before trying to scale a tree. He then promptly fell down and was descended upon by police...
...teacher who grew up in New Jersey and relocated here after college. Not that she knew which campaign poster to plant in the front lawn either. She doesn't trust Bush with the nation's public schools, and she kind of liked Gore at first. But it was a brief affair with a cold fish. "I watched very closely," she said of the final debate. "I wanted either Bush or Gore to give me a reason to like...