Word: sudden
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...widely used in the roofs of nearly 1 million town houses during the past decade has turned out to have an unexpected vulnerability. Over just a few years, the heat of the sun triggers a chemical reaction that causes the wood to blacken, decay and eventually collapse. Result: a sudden epidemic of leaky buildings, expensive repairs and bitter lawsuits...
Like St. Paul on the road to Damascus, Dr. Bob Brown had a sudden and irrevocable conversion. The Australian general practitioner had traveled for twelve days on the Franklin River, a beautifully remote waterway in western Tasmania, without sign of civilization. Suddenly, near the river's headwaters, he heard the racket of construction equipment -- jackhammers, drilling barges, bulldozers and helicopters. They were about to build a dam that would have destroyed everything Brown had just seen. "I decided on the spot that the preventive medicine I should be involved in was the conservation movement," says Brown, 45. He dropped...
...break came on an October night in 1969 at New York's Philharmonic Hall. It was not a fracture that disabled the 72-year-old Steinberg but sudden fatigue. Thomas, not yet 25, was standing in the wings when the maestro walked offstage just before the intermission and told his assistant to get out there and finish the concert. Thomas proceeded to take the orchestra through a Starer concerto and Till Eulenspiegel without a slip, and the critics flipped. By 1972 he was the Boston's principal guest conductor and had his own orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic...
...gifted, he was busy and he was ambitious, but he was still not ready for prime time. Veteran members of the Boston and other orchestras that he conducted found it hard to forgive an impudent kid his sudden celebrity. (When the frisky youngster appeared in New York City, recalls a former Philharmonic player, one of the musicians dubbed him Michael Tinsel Tushy...
...Mortgages are risky too. Let's say you have a billion dollars out in home loans, and the average rate on those home loans is 5%. But then rates go up and you have to pay more to attract deposits. So all of a sudden you're paying out 8%, but you're still catching 5% coming in. That loan's bad right now. You're out of business. There's no way you can ride that...