Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Steen's plans could be hampered by the sudden, unexplained departure this summer of Michael G. Burner, the manager of Harvard's UNIX systems. UNIX is an operating system for running the computer network...
...Last week, all of a sudden, they announced Mr. Redford wouldn't be coming," Dean of Freshman Elizabeth Studley Nathans said yesterday. "Now we have 150 press guides sitting on my shelf. They're very glossy, very fancy and now very useless...
Before there was Penn, there was Dartmouth: the Big Green had won three league championships in a row before last season. The sudden loss of prestige attending the team's close 10-6 opening-season loss to the Quakers has Hanoverites hungry for revenge, but don't bet on it. The team lost several key players and will have a tough time fending off Cornell for the number-two position...
...best outcome Washington can wish for is a sudden transformation of Cuba into an open-market democracy, preferably by evolution, though maybe by internal revolutionary upheaval. But it would be unwise to count on such a lucky break. For all his economic bungling, Castro retains strong political control and the loyalty of many Cubans, probably still a majority of them. The new surge of people fleeing is sometimes seen as the beginning of the end for Fidel, but it might equally provide him with a safety valve that drains away the most seriously discontented -- as well as illustrating once again...
...stern warning to the government of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. If there is fraud in the upcoming national election, he declared, there will be an explosion of protest that will shut down Mexico. Just as he stopped speaking, a powerful downpour brought the four-day gathering to a sudden end, setting off a dangerous shower of sparks from the encampment's electric lights...