brief
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MILAN—When authorities from the World Anti-Doping Agency delivered their pre-Games briefing here on the eve of the Winter Olympics, they fielded questions about the most urgent issues in global sports.
“I can handle a brief interaction with a cat, but once it’s more than 45 minutes in an enclosed space, I start to experience an allergic reaction.”
LaFemina expects the miner to refocus on the strategy it outlined at an investor briefing in December, targeting cost cutting and asset sales.
On Thursday, his press spokeswoman opened her daily press briefing with the subject.
From Barron's
Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Washington and Moscow went through some brief periods without a major arms control treaty in place.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.