Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since profits started tumbling four years ago, Playboy Enterprises Inc. has been through more shufflings than a Playboy magazine in a barbershop. Employees at Chicago headquarters are now smarting from still another round of corporate hutch cleaning: the abrupt firing of 70 administrative and editorial workers, including five of the 30 vice presidents. President Derick Daniels circulated a written assurance that "no further planned mass reductions" would occur; understandably, that did not solace the survivors. He called the purge part of a "broad program to reduce administrative overhead and reallocate resources." Added Founder-Chairman Hugh Hefner, 51: "What...
September 22. 1977--Tim Davenport's Harvard football career came to an abrupt conclusion yesterday, when X-rays revealed that the senior quarterback had fractured a vertebra in his neck...
...Graham company. Like George Balanchine, he almost always works with his own dancers, whose speed and athleticism are virtually his signature. Taylor calls his newest dance, Dust, "a subconscious stream of action that just bubbled up." The description applies to all his work. It seems spontaneous, serendipitous, full of abrupt exits and startling entrances. For Taylor, the glory of motion is where you find it: "I look at people in the streets and in the country, and I come to the conclusion that the most beautiful things to see are not in the art galleries. They are all around...
...bloody scene of the crime, and as the suspense builds towards the end, he moves back and forth with devastating effect between the horror in the streets and some incredibly mundane dialogue. The tension mounts toward a swift climax, and although the ending is a bit too abrupt and ideologically confusing, it is effective...
...subjects that have little to do with economic development are preoccupying the leaders of Asia. Both issues have been raised by the Carter Administration, both are unpopular, and both cause deep concern. They are the proposed withdrawal of U.S. ground troops from South Korea, and the abrupt new emphasis on human rights...