1.   After illness recently caused him to cancel a Three Tenors concert in Melbourne, Australia, he went to Florida for a brief vacation.

2.   After a brief vacation, he will be briefing the Defense Policy Board, the advisory group to the defense secretary.

3.   After the rest of his teammates drifted out of the clubhouse, off to homes or brief vacations, Cameron lingered.

4.   But while many senators saw virtue in a brief vacation, they also saw some risks.

5.   Cardoso appears to be planning for a low profile in the coming weeks, with a brief vacation and a trip to Portugal coming up.

6.   Fed up with the department, Cross decides to take Christine, the kids and his grandmother to Bermuda for a brief vacation.

7.   He will also, of course, need the support of Yeltsin, who returned to the Kremlin Thursday from a brief vacation, looking frail.

8.   He was restricted to either Arizona or New York, except for a brief vacation to Disneyland with his family during the Thanksgiving holiday.

9.   Is taking a brief vacation from spousal judgment a sign of marital decay?

10.   James Sekulov thought he needed a brief vacation, a week away from tennis to keep his confidence from diminishing even further.