At his home office in Great Neck, N.Y., Edward Yardeni, the investment strategist, received terse e-mail messages from clients and friends.
He and other tenants have already received terse letters from the landlord's management company, Staller Associates, instructing them to be ready for property inspections.
Putin has received a cool welcome since arriving in Brisbane over the weekend, receiving terse words from fellow delegates, including President Barack Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and British Prime Minister David Cameron.
But to receive that terse response, and the earlier one, is beyond bearing.
His legal team replied offering free tickets to Edinburgh only to eventually receive a "terse, one sentence" disclosure statement detailing the grounds they had to interview him – namely a complaint made by a religious group.
Several minutes later, I received his terse, succinct reply: "Call".
His offer of a fancy dinner received a terse "we'll see".
Soon afterward, Monica said, she received a terse cable from Paris: "WOULD RATHER CHANGE PUBLISHER THAN TITLE.
Mr Crick heard nothing for weeks, and then received a terse letter from Mr Hague's political secretary, Sebastian Coe, declining his offer of a meeting.
KABUL, Afghanistan — This month, with President Hamid Karzai looking ahead to a visit to the White House, he received a terse note from aides to President Obama: Your invitation has been revoked.
