Now she gives him informal briefings whenever she can.

Mr. Amelio spoke for the first time as Apple's leader in an informal briefing this afternoon in a cafeteria at the company's headquarters here.

Our only sources for what intelligence officials thought at the time are what they said in informal briefings.

The International Development Committee, which I chair, had an informal briefing this morning from the Strategic Foresight Group.

At Fenway Park yesterday, Red Sox officials held an informal briefing for reporters, including some who knew of the Yankees' deal before they did.

"I was with the ambassador, Captain, conducting an informal briefing at his request," Spock replied.

He had requested an informal briefing, but I found his knowledge already quite extensive.

They offered to hold informal briefings tonight for nations with strong doubts in an effort to win formal acceptance on Saturday.

Not that he'd allowed any trace of that to color the informal briefing he'd just given Tourville and Giscard.

Two days before the flight I again telephoned my friends at Membray and received an informal briefing on Newbury along with the number for the race-course.