Word: sudden
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...America, was getting $463,000 a year in pay and benefits. He flew on the Concorde and spent $20,000 one year on limousines. A spin-off organization bought an apartment for Aramony's use and hired his son. Exposure of these abuses led to Aramony's sudden retirement. The head of the New York-area United Way division (pay: $341,000) also recently retired -- on a lump-sum pension of $3.3 million...
Middens made by hyraxes -- rodents found in Africa and the Middle East -- have provided similar evidence that human clearing of surrounding forests and shrubbery led to the sudden collapse in A.D. 900 of the ancient metropolis of Petra, in what is now Jordan...
...wisdom of exalting such a legendary offender of controlled substance laws. But I have a different bone to pick. Why is the Postal Service violating its ban against portraying living Americans on postage? "We've had tremendous interest in this particular stamp," says Frank frankly. And why this sudden burst of glaspost?? "I wanted Elvis' fans to play an active role in the stamp selection process...
...death visited with savage abruptness at 7:20 p.m. last Friday. An earthquake that registered at least 6.2 on the Richter scale leveled 200 buildings, leaving more than 500 people dead -- the toll could climb well past 1,000 -- and at least 2,000 injured. "All of a sudden I saw the wall coming down and the city swinging like a cradle," said Ahmet Elden, whose wife and four children were trapped in their wrecked apartment. "I can still hear the cries of my son calling...
...courtroom, the University seems to have had a sudden change of heart. In this case, the University is basically saying that lack of faculty diversity does not significantly affect a student's education--an argument which implies that the advantages of diversity are trivial...