Word: sudden
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When I saw photos of the Kobe earthquake [Cover Stories, Jan. 30], it looked like a war had occurred. But this sudden devastation was done by nature, not by human beings. There have been complaints that the response of the authorities was too slow because of its bureaucracy. They are deserved. But this earthquake was much more destructive than the government ever imagined. It is easy to criticize, but everyone has to learn from this experience...
...case, it was sudden. Only a year ago, Utah's young Governor, Mike Leavitt, conceived a grand confab for the fall of 1995 called the Conference of the States, to which he planned to invite his colleagues and state legislators. It was intended as a national forum on the skewed relationship between federal and state power. Most Governors considered a re-evaluation long overdue. Although the New Deal's assumption by the Federal Government of the U.S.'s primary responsibilities and powers may have been one of the century's noblest undertakings, at some point in the late 1960s...
...Catholic author of such books as Defense of the Pope (1993) that chronicled his close relationship with the present Pontiff; in Versailles. Frossard was an atheist and leftist in his youth, but, as he recalled in his 1968 best seller God Exists and I Met Him, he became a sudden Catholic convert...
...want to fuck you like an animal/You get me closer to God"). Dark, chaotic music videos that alternate with scenes of glorified murder from the likes of Snoop Doggy Dogg also grace MTV's frequent-rotation roster. The surging phenomenon is evident everywhere one looks; perhaps it explains the sudden trendiness in multiple body piercings and the resurgence of the tattoo...
...This sudden encounter with a broader world parallels the experiences of many of his fictional characters, Potok explained...