Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With each of the aftershocks, which have totaled more than 5,000 of varying intensity, the fears have assumed a pervasive, even obsessive dimension. One store reported a sudden boom in $2,000 steel-canopy beds capable of withstanding "an entire collapsing roof." Conversations are dominated by the quake. True tales of the fateful moment at 4:31 a.m. are told and retold: how in one Sherman Oaks home a water bed went wild, flipped its occupant against the ceiling and then heaved him against the wall as though to suffocate...
...should one of the under-dogs-Vermont, Union or Colgate-go on a sudden four-game victory binge, they would be assured a spot in the NCAA mix, league reputation or not, for the ECAC tournament winner gets an automatic national...
While Burner called this weekend's failure "a fluke situation, but not very unusual," he attributed the freezes somewhat to a sudden increase in network users over the last few weeks. And he acknowledged that the current network is in need of a reevaluation...
...public health campaign urging parents to put newborns to sleep on their back has reduced the nationwide incidence of sudden infant death syndrome 12% in just six months...
...bunch only recently dubbed "Uncle Sam's lead-footed snowplow brigade," by Sports Illustrated magazine. Yet even U.S. ski officials seemed stunned by the team's sudden resurrection. "It's the most unbelievable thing I've seen in sports," said American coach Paul Major of Roffe-Steinrotter's win. The 26-year-old veteran's career was in a slump, and she had failed to place higher than eighth in any World Cup race since capturing a silver medal in the 1992 Albertville Olympics. As for Moe, he had not won a major downhill contest in five years...