Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jerusalem's abrupt rejection of the treaty revisions and its shrill rhetoric shocked U.S. officials. When he read the Israeli Cabinet's statement, reports TIME State Department Correspondent Christopher Ogden, the normally phlegmatic Vance seethed with anger, and a senior U.S. official dismissed one especially nasty phrase in it by snapping: "It does not deserve comment." Another American insisted that the Israeli Cabinet response was filled with "misleading inaccuracies." So upset is the Administration that it may take its case to the public by releasing documents refuting Israel's contentions...
...Amazing," said one of the 27Western journalists based anything in Peking. "Incredible," declared another. "There has never been anything like it." They were referring to last week's abrupt lowering of the invisible barriers in for years have prevented Western newsmen from engaging in serious political discussions with ordinary Chinese citizens. "Before this," said the Toronto Globe and Mail's John Fraser, "trying to get an idea of what the average man was thinking was akin to peering over garden walls. Now the veil has been pulled aside...
Thomas KÖpcke, 18, was one of West Germany's more promising young boxers. Just last year the sturdily built youth was runner-up in his nation's junior heavyweight competitions. Now KÖpcke's career has been brought to an abrupt halt by an X-ray device known as the CAT scanner...
...quantity of reserves into the banking system, turn a deaf ear to pleas that it shovel in more, no matter how intense the demand for loans becomes, and let interest rates go wherever the market takes them. The board has traditionally resisted that approach out of fear that an abrupt crackdown in an inflationary economy would cause interest rates to leap up so violently as to produce financial chaos. Miller has said that if the board had tried that strategy in 1974 the prime rate would have hit 20%, and "as a former businessman [he was chairman of Textron...
...apply it." Ford Motor Co. Vice Chairman and President Philip Caldwell said the dollar-saving moves should "slow inflation and re-establish growth on a healthier basis." Richard Kjeldsen, senior international economist for Security Pacific National Bank in Los Angeles, asserted, "The President's economic package is drastic, abrupt and volatile?it's just what the doctor ordered...