Word: abruptness
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...Cheney's abrupt action showed too that the shriveling of the defense budget is little affected by such immediate emergencies as a potential war in the Persian Gulf. For contractors, the long- and short-term trends are contradictory. As the developers of new weapons systems face increasingly tough times, suppliers who meet the needs of Desert Shield with such items as boots, camouflage netting and gas masks are enjoying an unexpected -- but presumably brief -- bonanza...
...A.P.A.'s Robinowitz, psychoactive medications are often more powerful than the drugs prescribed by other non-M.D.s. The tranquilizer Haldol, for example, acts not only on the brain but also on the cardiovascular system and the liver. Occasionally the medication can cause jaundice, severe skin problems and abrupt drops in blood pressure. Prescribers need to be able to spot problems wherever they may occur, not just those that show up in psychological disorders, says Robinowitz. There is also the danger of drug interactions. It is important to know not only which combinations of medications should be avoided but also...
...been hostile. Far from sneaking into Hollywood, both Sony and Matsushita were squired around by superagent Michael Ovitz, the homegrown power broker. All of which brings to mind a scene in the 1978 film Heaven Can Wait in which the fictional owner of the Los Angeles Rams decries the abrupt takeover of the team by a fancy-pants financier. "The s.o.b. got my team," he moans. But how did the sneaky businessman do it? Says the team owner: "I asked for $67 million. And he said O.K." Last week Matsushita said O.K. Does that make American culture a victim? Hardly...
...other photographic works were not as interesting as Butterick's. Richard Robbins' "Five Pieces from Paris Series 1990," for example, was dull and trite. All the images were slightly blurred, presumably to add a certain softness or ambiguity to the works. They did not. And the abrupt frames which lopped off heads and feet created a jarring view of the scene. These frames were unoriginally employed--ever since Toulouse-Lautrec, the arbitrary, non-classical frame has been employed to make audience members re-evaluate their perspective, but here that re-evaluation seemed pointless. To say the least, the frames have...
...addition to sending 200,000 fresh American troops to the gulf from Germany and the U.S., Bush's decision means an abrupt end to plans for rotating thousands already there back home for a reprieve...