For a brief moment, it was as if someone stuck a pin in a balloon and deflated my lovely day.

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So, a weakening in the linkage between the dollar and the stock market, brief as it might turn out to be, was welcomed yesterday.

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But it was only a brief respite as Saints still found time to run in five more tries.

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Even though the announcement was about as brief as possible, it still gave investors some means to assess when the 3G model would be coming out.

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One senses that the hope, small as it was, to take a brief timeout on hyperpartisanship in order to tackle the big issues is now slipping away.

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It was a brief reprieve for Slovakia, as Rooney and Beckham combined to give England a deserved second goal after 70 minutes.

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It proved a brief respite for Worcester as Ryan Powell was forced to nudge the ball into touch close to his own line.

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The Center warned of precisely this danger in a Decision Brief issued last March, which seems as relevant today as when it was first published.

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But the brief period of reflection beside the Pope's body as it lay in state in April 2004 was a rare moment of calm in the often turbulent career of the primate, who has previously been dubbed in the press the "Cardinal of Controversy".

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