Word: sudden
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...lives. More than that, it is reasserting itself with great force. A survey of high-level policy leaders and futurists by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, released this month, shows a sudden upsurge in support for nuclear power following a decade of rejection. As the world worries about global warming and acid rain, even some environmentalists are looking a bit more kindly on the largest power source that doesn't worsen either problem: nuclear. New reactor designs would make accidents like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island impossible, or so the engineers say, and while much of the public is skeptical, some scientists...
...Graduation is confusing. All of a sudden you are rushing out into the real world," said Todd S. Cameroon '91, who will spend next year traveling. "But I guess it is time to move...
...that game, Harvard's Don Rogers scored in sudden-death overtime to lift the then seventh-ranked Crimson over a second-ranked and undefeated Yale squad, 8-7. The goal, which silenced a crowd of nearly 3000 in New Haven, secured Harvard a share of the Ivy League title...
...issues are beginning to reappear. "The serious problems haven't been addressed," says Houston lawyer Patrick Dugan, a Bush supporter who usually votes Republican. "The deficit, S&Ls, plummeting real estate. People were scared during the war. All the Saddam rhetoric, they focused on that. Now all of a sudden, the problems are back and they...
...speculation that Kaifu's days may be numbered -- or at the very least that his chances of re-election next October are doomed. "Without Ozawa in one of the party top posts, Kaifu could be a lame- duck Prime Minister," observed a Japanese politician. Others speculate that Ozawa's sudden downfall might trigger the comeback of former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, still considered one of the most powerful politicians in Japan despite his resignation two years ago over an influence- peddling scandal...