Word: sudden
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...well off, who spend less of their disposable income. And although the per-student minimum gave it the appearance of egalitarianism, that impulse seems offset by a loophole exempting the state's 40 wealthiest districts from limits on per-pupil spending. Furthermore, sales-tax revenues are notorious for sudden plunges when consumer spending slows down during a recession. Warns Raymond Mackey, a regional director of the American Federation of Teachers, which opposed the measure: "There will be fiscal problems in the future. That's not a warning but a fact...
After three months of snow and cold weather, waiting another month to wear shorts and sandals can start to feel impossible, and travel all of a sudden seems relatively cheap. Anyway, what are you going to do with the money you made scrubbing toilet seats for dorm crew...save it for grad school? And what's a couple hundred of dollars to get reacquainted with sunshine...
...sudden inflation of Whitewater from a nuisance into a crisis, Administration officials insisted, was due more to their colleagues' stupidity than to any new evidence of misdeeds. The President said it was all a problem of perception. Desperate to move on, they could even joke about it; adviser Bruce Lindsey cracked that Whitewater was the site of the future Clinton presidential library. But the greatest perceptual change had implications far beyond Whitewater and its tributaries: the President's wife, the most unaccountable member of any Administration, was being called to account for her actions...
...with snow pouring, the two team battled it out in the sudden death OT for a few minutes, before a BC attacker darted through the Crimson defense and tattood the winning goal to the back...
...sudden I felt that this is where Ishould be--in prevention, rather than ineducation," says Bindra. "It was satisfying, and Irealized that primary care is where I want...