Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...power, an ego trip. Ed Gray was ignorant, a person whose background was public relations, all of a sudden being put in charge of a $1 trillion industry. Where do you think they got these regulators? Off the streets, out of ads. They took this conglomeration of inexperienced and untrained people and they say, O.K., go out and cope with the Charlie Keatings who are diversifying the S&Ls. You've got a bunch of know-nothings trying to tell business people how to invest money...
...first glance, such figures make the heart leap at this sudden elevation of popular taste. Unfortunately, no one has yet revealed how many copies of Rushdie, Eco or Hawking were actually read by those who bought them. Surveys of reading habits appear now and then; they must be discounted absolutely. Pollsters are not equipped with rubber truncheons to beat the truth out of interviewees. And where this subject is concerned, people lie. They will go on Donahue or Geraldo and confess, beaming, to every sin against God and man -- except the act of not having really read the latest much...
...chain, agreed last week to pay $400 million for a 75% stake in Southland Corp., the Dallas-based operator of the 7-Eleven chain of convenience stores. At the same time, Japanese investors have developed a case of "Europhoria" about opportunities on the Continent, thanks in part to the sudden rise of capitalism in Eastern Europe...
...shelters. But this is not the first time that Prophet has prophesied Armageddon; in 1987 she predicted that California would fall into the sea. That may be one reason why church officials have been denying that the faithful will be diving for cover anytime soon, insisting that the sudden influx of followers to Montana is merely a response to Prophet's call for a prayer vigil to deflect the danger of a nuclear catastrophe...
...Moses there: "And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking . . ." Today a visitor sees the massive granite front of Horeb that rises perpendicularly out of moonscape and in the autumn and winter months may be surrounded by sudden clouds, thunder, lightning and lashing rains...