They get their information mostly through oral briefings.

Alternatively, this document may have been a draft intended to serve as the basis for an oral briefing of the President (although the Committee has no evidence that this was done).

In my experience I've found that, with an oral briefing, you not only acquire information, you also learn a great deal about the person who's presenting it.

Kari Allen, a spokeswoman for Boeing, said that "all open work was completed," and that the Boeing team had given mission managers an oral briefing on Jan. 24.

Mr. Bush receives an oral briefing each morning from 8 to 8:45 on foreign intelligence and domestic security.

The President-elect also receives a daily 15-minute oral briefing on security matters that aides say is the same one Mr. Bush gets at the White House.

Supporting Select Committees, with informal advice, oral briefings, data analyses, background papers or follow-up research.

When she'd finished her oral briefing, he nodded.

The first subject on the agenda is presented in an oral briefing by the staff officer most familiar with the topic.

That consists of oral briefings to Parliament, since the Commission is cautious about making that committee's discussions public because this would jeopardise the confidentiality of project selection.