Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arthurian opera may have unforeseen consequences, particularly for Arthur Cornish and his wife Maria, who is also on the foundation's board. Might these two well-meaning, influential and exemplary people be fated to suffer Maria's adultery with Arthur's best friend, a Lancelot in modern dress? No sooner is this suspicion raised than it begins to seem inevitable. Davies does not try to generate much suspense on this score; his interest lies in how the principals will react once the predestined has occurred and what they will learn from the unpleasant, archetypal experience...
...much of the past year, candidates in both parties vied over who would be best able to "sit across the table from Gorbachev." Now the winner will have to do so sooner than he would have preferred. On issues where he may prove more flexible than Reagan -- such as the Strategic Defense Initiative and a compromise in Central America -- Bush does not want to seem to be breaking ( ranks before he is even inaugurated. Therefore the Vice President would rather have stayed in Washington this week, and he resisted the Soviets' request for a separate, one-on-one meeting...
...buyout binge produces some big-time losers as well, particularly investors who owned a company's top-quality bonds when the same firm's junk bonds hit the market. Since the new IOUs would saddle the company with a riskier load of debt, the old bonds get clobbered. No sooner had Johnson disclosed that he wanted to buy RJR Nabisco, for example, than the company's $5 billion of outstanding bonds lost 20% of their value. Furious bondholders, including Metropolitan Life and ITT, immediately sued for damages. Declared Metropolitan Life chairman Creedon: "No one in his right mind wants...
...House by promising no new taxes, no significant spending cuts -- no pain. Now he has moved into the world of knuckle-biting trade-offs and compromise. Having spent much of his adult life striving to be President, George Bush finally is getting his chance to act like one -- and sooner than he expected...
...plan would have each house set aside 25 percent of their rooms for random assignment. Students would make three choices as they currently do, but houses would fill sooner. The students left would be assigned randomly to the rooms set aside by each house. This makes for a larger pool for each house to draw on, and thus a greater mix of students would be divided between the houses...