Word: sudden
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According to the most comprehensive survey, winners are heavily clustered in higher-income brackets. Once they win, they shun spending sprees, pay off debts and, by a big percentage, continue to work or get additional education after their sudden windfall. Only 23% quit their job. Sharon Turner, a U.S. government worker, now has a $7.5 million nest egg but says her husband Darnell stays at his job at a Washington junior high school "because he wants to teach." Last week Don Wittman, 29, of Denver, amazed everybody twice: he won his second $2 million prize -- against odds figured...
...pretty sudden change, especially after such a nice day on Sunday," said Kevin Chang...
...sudden death of raunchy raconteur Redd Foxx during a rehearsal for his new TV series, The Royal Family, deprived America of one of its most popular comedians -- and may have cheated CBS of a hit. Foxx's much-anticipated return to TV, opposite co-star Della Reese, was producing respectable ratings for the network in a long-lagging Wednesday-night time slot. CBS has only three more episodes featuring Foxx. While replacing him will be difficult, since the show was tailor-made for Foxx, the network hopes to keep the series alive. One possibility: a new male lead, perhaps...
...insulted or offended by anything I've said or done?" Many women privately shared their experiences and their anger, for the first time taking seriously behavior they had long taken for granted. Some of them, wary of being cast as victims, wondered whether in the end all the sudden attention to the issue would do them more harm than good...
Harvard (5-5, 1-2 Ivy) downed Penn, 3-1, and all of a sudden, things are looking just a little bit brighter for the Crimson...