Word: abruptly
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That's how she struck me when I met her and as I watched her life. She was tough. There was the worn and weathered face, the abrupt and definite speech. We think saints are soft, ethereal, pious and meek. But some saints are steamrollers, and great saints are great organizers, great operators, great combatants in the world...
...Scott, a lawyer by training, the abrupt departure marks the end of a wunderkind career as the health-care industry's most ambitious--and controversial--empire builder. A headstrong, self-centered manager--"He regards anyone who is not totally for him as the enemy," says an insider--Scott has always been a man in a hurry. In 1987 he and Richard Rainwater, a Fort Worth, Texas, billionaire, each invested $125,000 in a pair of struggling hospitals in El Paso, Texas. That became the seed for Columbia's present holdings of 1,062 hospitals, outpatient surgical centers and home-health...
...next couple of years, he spent $6.6 million (and an estimated $32 million in renovations) on the two Ocean Drive buildings that were transformed into his Casa Casuarina residence, where his life last week came to an abrupt end. Versace's arrival brought a much hyped infusion of glamour to South Beach. Soon after he started spending time there, it was hard to stroll down Ocean Drive without stumbling upon a fashion shoot. Chic restaurants popped up, and so did more and more modeling agencies, as aspiring cover girls and boys started hanging around Versace, hoping to be discovered. (Every...
Congress made an agreeable discovery three years ago. Early in 1994, in an abrupt statistical spike, voters in large numbers started saying that crime was their No. 1 concern. So when the House and Senate passed the omnibus crime bill later that year, people actually noticed. Which is one reason why, in a sluggish political summer, when Washington is competing with Mars and Mike Tyson for some quality time with the rest of America, Congress is going after crime again. In May the House passed a bill that would give $1.6 billion to states that agree to toughen their handling...
...YORK CITY: His eye nervously trained on the American auto and energy industries, President Clinton spoke to the U.N. on the evils of global warming but steered clear of committing the U.S. to any specific reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. In an abrupt about-face from his recent support for tough domestic clean air regulations, Clinton's most substantial pledge was to supply developing countries with $1 billion over the next five years to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions. No better than "using a squirt gun to quell a raging fire," snipped Sierra Club President Adam Werbach. "With the whole...