Word: abruptness
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...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...
...black boys with no fathers at home, one in kindergarten and one in first grade. The results were encouraging. Daily attendance rates increased 6%, test scores jumped 6% to 9%, and there was a noticeable decrease in hostility. But after only a year, the U.S. Education Department brought an abrupt halt to the experiment because it violated civil rights laws...
...independence movement in Latvia is in part a means for ethnic Latvians, who make up only 54% of the population, to avoid becoming a minority. But independence leaders are proceeding cautiously. Lithuania is still suffering under Moscow's economic restrictions for its abrupt secession on March...
B.A.T. was forced to sell Saks as well as the Chicago-based Marshall Field's chain as part of a strategy to fend off a hostile takeover bid led by Sir James Goldsmith, the Anglo-French raider. In an abrupt turnaround early last week, the takeover artist said he would drop his pursuit of B.A.T. But with the Saks sale already in motion and bids running high, the British company went through with the transaction two days later...
...Japanese, Carla Hills had been a steely antagonist making a flurry of merciless demands. But last week their image of the U.S. Trade Representative took an abrupt turn. She became an unexpected defender, thanks to her sudden determination to bring a more conciliatory tone to U.S.-Japan relations. At Hills' urging, President Bush decided last week to remove Japan from a U.S. hit list of countries cited for unfair trade practices. Said Hills, whose new attitude inflamed many hawks in Congress: "Perhaps Japan had the farthest to go, but it moved farther and faster than any of our other trading...