Word: sudden
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Instead of going out with the brilliance that characterized his four-year Harvard career, James was relegated to the sidelines as the Crimson lost its seventh consecutive Ivy League game. The team's sudden Ivy skid wasn't supposed to happen, but neither was James's injury. And it is no coincidence that Harvard's demise took place while the senior co-captain was fighting injury...
Then, all of a sudden, the Iron Lady was again the kind and polite hostess...
While Cavanaugh agrees that the idea of less monopoly in government is a good one, he argues that the school voucher system would require gradual, rather than sudden, implemetation and provisions for children with special needs...
Given the sudden political shifts that are commonplace in the Arab world, it is possible that most of the Arab governments standing against Saddam may make amends to him after the war. Two exceptions: Syria's President Hafez Assad, who has a long-running personal rivalry with Saddam, and the Emir of Kuwait. At the same time, Jordan's King Hussein and President Bush are expected to patch things up. Bush still prefers the King to the more radical regime that would most likely replace him, while Hussein is eager for renewed financial assistance from the West and the Saudis...
First, four of the co-defendants jumped bail and disappeared. Then a key prosecution witness mysteriously vanished. Last week the two remaining witnesses to the crime refused to testify. Faced with the sudden flight of evidence, Rand Supreme Court Judge Michael Stegmann abruptly postponed until next month the start of South Africa's most explosive trial in recent years, to give the flustered prosecution time to repair its case...