Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sudden, three successive deaths shake-up the slumbering small town. First a high school student, then a homeless man and finally Adele Baraclough the local art patron are all found dead. The murders would seem unrelated except for the JUST ASK MONTY campaign pin that graces each corpse. Monty Monteagle, the newly-elected reform-minded mayor, is just one of the town's many suspects...
This is no sudden discovery. The Foundation's funding was announced before the talk and reported in The Crimson the following day. What is surprising is the absolute silence that has greatest the Foundation's actions...
...sudden, appearance of these conscientious defenders of truth is not an unexplainable phenomenon. A presidential reelection campaign advertisement announcing the influx of thousands of impoverished Haitians probably strikes Bush as far less appealing than an advertisement flaunting the triumphant victory of overwhelming U.S. military forces over a despotic and tyrannical dictator...
...calm before the blizzard. There were a few contretemps: some Russians complained about the lack of fax machines in the Olympic Village, and the official Chinese news agency announced that the accommodations here set new Olympic records for discomfort. The International Olympic Committee provoked mumbles with its sudden threat to introduce blood testing, which it just as quickly dropped. Even official brochures treated the athletes like errant children: "Moving from one Village to another is of course possible -- if not recommended -- provided official permission is granted...
More is what he gets, thanks to the sudden disappearance of Matty Hylan, a flamboyant millionaire who owns a conglomeration of companies, including the one that employs Browne. The runaway entrepreneur leaves behind a crumbling financial empire and the commitment he had made to skipper a new Altan Marine model in an around-the-world sailing race called the Eglantine Solo. Hylan's beleaguered lieutenants scramble for a replacement and find him in one of their own employees, Owen Browne...