However, India's terse public position on the current situation in Nepal has surprised many.
Sisco, who is Dove's immediate boss, issued a terse statement describing the situation as an "internal matter" and declining further comment.
At 4.06am, the firefighting team sent back their first terse summary of the situation: a "range of factories", in a building 125m by 40m, was 70% alight in "a very severe fire".
Classic Hollywood is as much Una Merkel as it is Katharine Hepburn, as much Joe E. Brown as Humphrey Bogart, yet the high road of memory gives pride of place to terse men who breeze bravely through tough situations without a grumble or a frown, energetic women who blast blithely through complications with heads-up daring or heads-down heedlessness.
In a matter of moments, the situation devolved from terse remarks into a tug-of-war over the deadly weapon.
As one of countless city folks who fell in love with older rural music, Ms. Welch writes with terse empathy about events and situations far from her own experience: moonshining, hard luck, mountain flowers and murder.
Asked if she thought the government could save the situation, she gave a terse "no".
The multiplicity of early names complicated later research, with the situation compounded by the terse descriptions provided by Marsh and Cope.
During the 1st and 2nd centuries ce, rabbinic schools had compiled for their own use collections of Midrashim (singular Midrash, meaning "investigation" or "interpretation"), in which the results of their exegesis and application of Scripture to problematic situations were recorded in terse legal form.
The best clues to how the Fed is handling the situation could come not in the expected terse announcement on Wednesday that the Federal Open Market Committee has left rates unchanged, but in the minutes, to be released on Thursday, of the committee's May 19 meeting.
Tonight, after scenes of burning cars and tear gas dominated television images broadcast from the summit meeting, the White House issued a terse statement saying President Bush had been informed of the situation.
