Word: abruptly
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When Nixon signed a lavish $407 million appropriation for Amtrak only last month, he asserted that strengthening the nation's rail system was necessary to cope with the energy shortage. And a Transportation Department study for the White House indicates that any abrupt halt in rail service by the bankrupt carriers would boost the national unemployment rate by 3% and lower the gross national product by 2.7% within two months. That seems an extravagant prediction, but the Administration is hardly likely to risk any derailment of the economy on top of Watergate and the energy crisis...
What caused Carlos Marighela to renounce 40 years of his life, turn his back on a party he had led and a set of tactics he had helped develop? The reasons underlying Marighela's abrupt swerve from left tradition can be traced to the transformation in the character of Brazilian political life the dictatorship represented, a transformation that foreshadowed similar metamorphoses in other Latin American nations...
...abrupt reversal, the General Services Administration (GSA) rewrote significant sections of the so-called Scope of Work Report, apparently changing the outline's tenor from its often-attacked pro-Kennedy stance to an impartial position...
Peeling Off. The Administration has ruled out any abrupt relaxation of Phase IV's rules. Instead, COLC Director John Dunlop will preside over a lingering phaseout, during which controls will be selectively lifted on an industry-by-industry basis. More than 70 industries and companies have so far asked for exemptions, using, says Dunlop, "every conceivable argument that the mind of man can devise." At first, Dunlop and others emphasized granting exemptions when industry leaders promised reasonable price stability in exchange. Now the Administration hope is that by allowing prices to rise, the COLC will encourage companies to expand...
...Richardson and the dismissal of his principal assistant, honorable men who both refused to carry out the President's order to fire Cox. After an outpouring of indignation from Congress and country, which saw Nixon as defying the courts and setting himself above the law, came the President's abrupt reversal and his decision to hand the tapes to the court after all. And only a few days ago, there was the sudden claim that two crucial tapes do not exist...