He is a man who paws through large briefing books for committee meetings, Democrats who have worked with him acknowledge.
"No, you can't," said Chancellor Merkel, whacking Harrington with a large briefing book prepared for the next day's session on the future of the euro.
But former officials have said that the raw intercepts, if interesting, would have been included in large briefing books given regularly to Mr. Obama's national security advisers — he is on his third — and their senior deputies, and other National Security Council officials with responsibility for Europe.
In respect to the abundance of Poaceae pollen during the early and mid Holocene, these open areas must have been large, suggesting brief annual high and extensive annual low Amazonian water stands.
Drugs of addiction trigger large but brief increases in extracellular dopamine in the nucleus accumbens.
By contrast, the AVB, AVA, AIY, AIA, and AIB interneurons each displayed frequent, large but brief changes in Ca2+ levels, at both 21%and7%7% O2.
ChAT− neurons display a fAHP of similar amplitude (19.8±1.3 mV), followed by a larger, but brief ADP (2.9±0.4 mV) and a much smaller sAHP (3.6±0.5 mV) than ChAT+ neurons (figure 5B,C and table 1).
Singapore Telecom's offer was slightly lower than that, although the cash portion of its bid was potentially larger, people briefed on the offer said.
REPORTER AT LARGE about a brief encounter with a junkman named O'Shaughnessy.
N.F.L. players wear masks, rosters are large, careers are brief, and there are just sixteen regular-season games, so most fans now recognize only the biggest stars.
