Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kirk J. Stowers '91 is one of the Harvard students who is put off by the new crowd at the pub. Stowers tells how one day he was talking to a man who had just gotten out of prison. All of a sudden, there were "60 to 70 Eliot House residents...
...news apparently came as a surprise to Duehay's fellow council members. Despite the sudden announcement, councillors and city officials were quick with congratulations and other friendly offers...
Correction officials admit to sanitary violations but claim there is little they can do. They contend that the jail population is subject to sudden surges in arrests and note that the opening of a new 850-bed facility is running behind schedule. "Paying arrestees $150 is outrageous," said city council president Andrew Stein, "and rewards potential criminals...
...investment that tends to feed the downward spiral and make any economic falloff even deeper. But there is another, more profound kind of recessionary psychology. It is measured by psychic indicators rather than economic ones. As people change their behavior in the face of layoffs, cutbacks or a sudden drop in net worth, more and more Americans find themselves clinically depressed...
...With his sudden affluence, Bo paid off the mortgage on his mother's house on Florence Avenue and moved her to a rented home in middle-class Northridge. He bought his sister Carmen a manicure salon and a condominium in Tarzana. He set his brother Darron up in a high-rise on Wilshire Avenue in Westwood, paying the $3,000 monthly rent. Moving frequently to avoid being ripped off by other drug dealers, Bo placed his common-law wife Linda Payton and their son Brian Jr. in a San Fernando Valley apartment. As a hideaway, he bought...