[Superman]

I testify at depositions and hearings regularly. When a one-word answer can suffice, this is what I give. The "rest of the story" can always come out in subsequent testimony.

I sometimes work on a document....a letter or report draft....and the longer I work on it the shorter it gets. I love this quote, supposedly by Mr. Twain:

"I wanted to write you a short note but I didn't have time, so I wrote you a long one."

In all aspects of my professional and personal communications, the older I get the fewer words I speak.