After a brief direct examination during which he told a prosecutor he found it troubling that money he gave was not spent on ballot security, Mr. Bloomberg was cross-examined by one of Mr. Haggerty's lawyers, Raymond R. Castello.
I remember when a much-loved family member died, a brief, direct note from her doctor brought much comfort, not because he touched briefly down to earth, but because he had noticed and enjoyed his patient's character, and so understood our grief at losing her.
By offering a brief, direct apology well before the rest of the story's stranger details unfolded, Williams says Petraeus has added strategic heft to the traditional post-affair apology.
This study has shown that a brief, direct, interviewer-administered OHRQoL instrument can provide useful data on the oral health-related quality of life of children.
He served on the Committee of Public Safety and for a brief period directed the revolutionary police force.
In a New York magazine article on Shockey that will appear next week, he delivers a brief diatribe directed at Bill Parcells, now the new coach of the Dallas Cowboys, and at one point describes Parcells with a derogatory word used against homosexuals.
In March, in a brief statement directed to Americans, he warned that executing Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other prisoners accused of planning the Sept. 11 attacks would prompt Al Qaeda to kill any Americans in its custody.
Afterward a brief documentary, directed by Matt Wolf and Anna Farrell, provides clips of interviews with people who knew Robbins, and with the dancers, the two directors, and Ellen Bar and Sean Suozzi, the film's executive producers.
(A brief aside, directed at bar owners: Isn't this recession a fine excuse to retire the whole unmarked entrance shtick? It doesn't inspire mystery — just awkward squinting and backtracking on the sidewalk. Let's bring back neon signage. Or enact a mini-stimulus package that would employ Bourbon Street-style barkers or men wearing sandwich boards marked "Cocktails").
The principle objective of the BIBE study is to determine the effectiveness of a brief intervention directed at fathers and/or mothers that smoke in order to reduce ETS in babies, in the context of pediatric visits in primary care.
