On the 11th, capitulated in a terse, one-page document.
None of this is aided by what SanDisk generously calls its user manual: a terse, slapped-together PDF document with only two screen illustrations.
We're assuming that L. C. Armfield is responsible for the admirable organization and crisp, terse style of this document, which makes the average timetable look vague in comparison.
When Mr Mandela was rushed to hospital in Pretoria in the early hours of June 8th, the world's media again descended to document the terse official updates, visits by family members and Sunday church prayers for "Madiba," as he is called here.
The silence surrounding her situation extends to her own diary, where Ernaux documents her physical transformation in terse, cryptic allusions: "There was no point naming something that I was planning to get rid of.
She worries that she is trying "to write a book about a country that has ceased to exist".Indonesia's somewhat haphazard origins are betrayed in the document that provides the book's title, the terse declaration of independence from the Netherlands in 1945.
On March 16, after the documents' release was approved, Mr. Negroponte's office issued a terse public announcement including a disclaimer that remained on the Web site: "The U.S. government has made no determination regarding the authenticity of the documents, validity or factual accuracy of the information contained therein, or the quality of any translations, when available".
A Goldman representative who showed Swenson the complaints of one hedge fund client was met with a terse response: "We are ok with that," Swenson wrote in another documented email.
But how reliably can linguistic experts establish that Person A wrote Document X when Document X is an e-mail — or worse, a terse note sent by instant message or Twitter?
Other documents useful for investigating Egyptian history are ancient lists of kings found in terse chronicles, such as the Fifth dynasty Palermo stone.
