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Some of NASA's problems, of course, are beyond its control. It does not, for example, set its own policy; it has to carry out whatever orders the President and Congress give it, and those commands have frequently stemmed more from political expediency than from reasoned analysis. Abrupt changes of direction are commonplace. Budgets are unstable. And even with the best of management, space exploration is inherently risky. So long as luck can go bad, occasional failures are likely...
University officials have put an abrupt end to the popular "assassin" game for first-years, disappointing nearly 100 gun-toting according to the student organizer...
...Marlowe's play is here sketched immediately in broad, unambiguous, 1990s strokes, upstaging the play's own subtleties of language. The filmmakers, clearly delighted with the possibilities of anachronistic dress, sets, and props, can't stop sprinkling them on, even when they're pointless and distracting. Like the abrupt cuts from scene to scene, these anachronisms are jarring and seem altogether a little too precious: a toy robot is set adrift, a bunch of sneakered men are directed in sit-ups by a man in a hooded sweatshirt, and the courtiers at the meeting where Gaveston's exile is discussed...
...chickens wait, blissfully unaware that their lives, which began on a New England farm, are about to come to an abrupt...
...South Africa been plunged into this chaos? Why does the dismantling of Apartheid seem to have caused every crook to crawl out of his hole? The answer probably lies in fact that the abrupt changes in the old regime have weakened many of the institutions which formerly maintained order. The anti-Apartheid movement has challenged the authority of the national government, the army and the police force, whose grip over society has weakened. This, of course, has given the average person more liberty. Unfortunately, though, the lifting of the veil of repression has unleashed more than just the honest...