Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...announcement of Green's departure was so abrupt that key officials around the University, including members of the Board of overseers, had not been informed of the move...
...life and destroy her career." But Harding's word has a poor record for stacking up against the truth. On Jan. 18, she initially told investigators that Gillooly was innocent. Later in the interview, however, after an FBI agent told Harding he knew she was lying, Harding did an abrupt about-face. "I know now he is involved," she said of her ex-husband. On Jan. 27, Harding told reporters that she had learned of the plot "within the next few days" of returning from Detroit...
...longer exists) began dumping Amazonian quantities of fresh water into the North Atlantic. The discharge stopped about 1,000 years later, as did the Younger Dryas. Broecker and Denton's model, says Penn State's Richard Alley, an expert on Greenland ice cores, "is probably the trigger for these abrupt changes...
Because the CUE Guide is so important to students choosing classes, some professors revamp their courses in response to student evaluations. While this is encouraging, these changes are often too abrupt and motivated by the wrong rationale...
Some of NASA's problems, of course, are beyond its control. It does not, for example, set its own policy; it has to carry out whatever orders the President and Congress give it, and those commands have frequently stemmed more from political expediency than from reasoned analysis. Abrupt changes of direction are commonplace. Budgets are unstable. And even with the best of management, space exploration is inherently risky. So long as luck can go bad, occasional failures are likely...