Word: abruptness
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...first quarter. That was below the superheated 7.3% pace in the previous three months yet still well above what the wildest optimists would consider a sustainable pace. However, Chris Varvares, president of Macroeconomic Advisers, a consulting firm with headquarters in St. Louis, Mo., expects a "fairly abrupt" slowing in the second half of the year to below 3%, which will hold gross-domestic-product growth for the year to 5%. Ed Yardeni, chief economist of Deutsche Bank, agrees, largely because he believes the skyrocketing rise of stock prices in late 1999 and early this year "most likely did contribute...
...Boston Globe reports that former Dean of the Divinity School Ronald F. Thiemann's abrupt resignation last fall was prompted by discovery of pornographic material on his University-owned computer. Thiemann remains a tenured professor but is on sabbatical until...
...fortuitous collision of timing and what many will interpret as political expediency, the convicted murderer and rapist will live to see another sunrise. Scheduled to die Thursday in what might have been just another routine Texas execution, McGinn was saved, at least temporarily, by his governor's abrupt change of heart. Thursday afternoon, hours before the scheduled lethal injection, George W. Bush sanctioned a 30-day stay of execution for McGinn...
Twelve miles later, I prevailed. A 12-mile walk affords a short, slow man plenty of time to think. During my hours of contemplation, I decided that the cause of my "concussion" was the abrupt shift from time spent almost entirely in the long view (lakes, ocean, mountains, cliffs, fields and bogs) to time spent almost entirely in the short view (e-mail, web, newspapers, magazines, television and videos). Only the middle ground of city streets could carry me safely from one extreme perspective to the other...
...result of its current losing streak, the Crimson has officially been eliminated from the playoffs, and seen its streak of three consecutive Ivy League championships come to an abrupt...