Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning of formal presidential impeachment hearings before a committee of Congress brought a time of fateful decisions regarding Richard Nixon's presidency. At the same time, a number of U.S. allies found themselves dealing with abrupt changes...
That is the majority view of Government and private energy experts. So far, it seems to be making only a moderate impression on a public thankful that the energy crisis is over, as it indeed is. At the height of the crisis in late winter, soaring oil prices, abrupt layoffs in some fuel-short industries, and mile-long lines of cars outside gasoline stations shocked Americans into a new conservation ethic. People sharply curtailed driving and turned down lights and thermostats in homes and factories...
...provides extensive historical background for her theories. Most of this material is not germane to her present subject--today's injustice--because it is concerned with legal practices long dead and buried. DeCrow does spare her reader the oft-used propaganda rhetoric of some "movement" books, but the hesitating, abrupt style and odd organization is at times irritating...
After several days of Machiavellian intrigue and counter-intrigue, Australia's first Labor Party government in 23 years came to an abrupt end last week, less than halfway through its three-year term. Prune Minister Gough Whitlam had Parliament dissolved and called for new elections. Ironically, Whitlam brought on the crisis by a political maneuver intended to consolidate his strength, not to provoke a showdown with the opposition...
...event, forecasting the commodities market is risky because it is so sensitive to outside influences-wars, droughts, abrupt political changes. One major imponderable is whether India will make massive wheat purchases in the U.S. and elsewhere. If it does, some prices could shoot back...