Word: abruptly
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...latest Gallup poll shows Ford leading Reagan among Republican voters by 53% to 42%. In mid-December the two men were tied; in November, following Ford's abrupt shakeup of his Cabinet and Reagan's announcement of his candidacy, the former California Governor led, 40% to 32%, in a field...
...letting his deputies handle the fallout. On one such occasion, Moynihan started to stroll out of the Assembly when Saudi Arabia's voluble Ambassador Jamil Baroody was standing at the speaker's rostrum. "Come back, sit down, perhaps you may learn something," Baroody taunted. Moynihan came to an abrupt halt, wheeled around, sat down and peered up at Baroody with a look of exaggerated attention on his face...
...were ill-prepared even by the most generous standards to do college-level work. Last week the New York board of higher education voted 7-2 to require CUNY applicants to pass entrance examinations. Thus the experiment designed to give deprived minorities an opportunity to attend college reached an abrupt...
...Spanish Sahara (TIME, Nov. 17), Morocco's 350,000 "peace marchers" were loaded into trucks last week and driven back to tent camps at Tarfaya, 21 miles north of the Sahara border. The marchers, never told of the international uproar their crusade had caused, were bewildered by the abrupt about-face. But they obediently played out their roles in one of the greatest anticlimaxes in recent history...
...upshot is that the nation seems likely to wind up with an oil-price policy that has some potentially beneficial provisions and some serious flaws. Gradual decontrol is certainly preferable to abrupt decontrol. But the price rollback, while giving some temporary relief to inflation-pressed consumers, probably would boost oil consumption and depress production. And the bill contains no special tax incentives for pumping out hard-to-get oil. In short, Congress has only postponed the tough steps that must eventually be taken to free the nation from its growing dependence on foreign...