Word: sudden
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GEORGE BUSH DEVELOPED A SUDDEN INTEREST IN labor law last Monday, the very day that the AFL-CIO leadership endorsed Bill Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination. Bush issued a directive ordering all federal contractors to notify their non-union employees in union shops that they may decline to have their dues diverted to political candidates they do not support. Bush broke no new ground here -- the Supreme Court established that principle in a 1988 ruling. That is why the Bush pronouncement had the sound of an election-year effort to placate the restless right wing of the Republican Party...
McKee's mother says she is sure her son's sudden decision to fly home was not known to his superiors in Virginia. "This was the first time Chuck ever telephoned me from Beirut," she says. "I was flabbergasted. 'Meet me at the Pittsburgh airport tomorrow night,' he said. 'It's a surprise.' Always before he would wait until he was back in Virginia to call and say he was coming home...
...MOTIVES and its sudden concern for the financial administration of Memorial Church need to be questioned. The student group's gripe is with Gomes' sexual orientation, and with the fact that he says homosexuality is compatible with Christianity...
...democratic impulse to reach out to so many first took seed after World War II, when the G.I. bill made funding for higher education available to all returning soldiers. As universities expanded to handle the sudden influx, they developed the flexibility that has become one of the hallmarks of American higher learning. "In the U.S. there is a system of infinite chances," says Diane Ravitch, Assistant Secretary of Education. "At 35, you can decide to go back to college, upgrade your education, change your profession...
...this production: the lack of a coherent vision of just what the opera is about. It is evident in the translation of Schikaneder's libretto, which, in cutting huge chunks of dialogue, makes the opera's story seen hurried and almost incomprehensible (even if the original, with its sudden plot reversal, is itself somewhat incoherent). The transitions are sudden, and such delicious scenes as the first act duet of Pamina and Papageno are deflated by a lack of preparation. The half-hearted characterization of the singers conspires with the awkwardness of the adapted libretto to empty the opera of power...