Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ended last week. With the abrupt resignation of Justice William Brennan, the court that Chief Justice Earl Warren led into an age of liberal judicial activism passed into history...
Last week, as Gorbachev struggled to bring the party whole and united out of the 28th Congress, the two men figured in one of his most remarkable triumphs -- and abrupt setbacks. After 10 days of harsh attack, he put down the right- wing revolt with a display of personal authority so convincing that his victory might justly have been dubbed "Ligachev's last stand." It was then, from his left flank, that Yeltsin pounced. When the chairman of the Russian parliament announced he was pulling out of the party, he paved the way in effect for a potentially dangerous split...
...have more cause for concern in the abrupt shift by the Soviet Union. While Moscow continues to provide arms, relations between the two nations began cooling well before Gorbachev's summit with Roh. In April Radio Moscow broadcasts criticized North Koreans as "completely brainwashed." Soviet officials accompanying Gorbachev to the summit could barely conceal their impatience with Pyongyang...
Jovanovich had already been replaced as chief executive in December by his son Peter, 41, but last week's final farewell was abrupt -- and necessary. While the company faces no immediate liquidity crisis, its $1.7 billion debt is dragging it down. HBJ posted an operating loss of $242 million last year, and its stock has collapsed to $3 a share, from $19 in 1989. To shed ballast, HBJ sold its Sea World theme parks last year for $1.1 billion. But the company needs to sell even more assets, and the elder Jovanovich did not have the heart to tear apart...
...past, when the entire infrastructure of confrontation -- from ideological intransigence to the arms race as the mainstay of security policy -- was still intact, fluctuations and even abrupt swings were probably inevitable in our relations...