Four days into his stay, we still hadn't been briefed from the doctor on his condition, and when my father would be leaving the hospital.
So these notes will be brief from the bits and pieces of sets I caught in the day's latter half: The Cars put on a solid set that clearly had many folks feeling nostalgic.
They have been briefed by officials from the White House, State Department and Justice Department, including Mr. Cheney, Alberto R. Gonzales and Stephen J. Hadley.
I suspected his son had been briefed to observe from afar, reporting back with a list of yappers.
Well, certain key members of Congress were briefed on that program from the very beginning.
Hovering over the oral arguments were briefs from friends of the court.
Once again it was brief, from June 28 to Oct. 25, 1898, when it fell because his war minister, General Jules Chanoine, defied the Cabinet in expressing his belief in the guilt of Alfred Dreyfus in the Dreyfus affair.
Ideally, training should be brief, because time away from clinic was often an issue.
There were brief speeches from Ms. Rodriguez ("From this day forward, every decision you make should be a decision to honor your parent").
But it took some time for tourism to take hold, and when it did, its heyday was brief -- from the late 40's to the 60's.
