Word: sudden
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Economy Minister Antonio Erman Gonzalez called it "a week of economic terror." That was no exaggeration, even in a country where economic scare stories are all too common. Among the latest horrors: a sudden year-end collapse of the value of the austral, which plunged from 1,200 to the U.S. dollar to 2,000 before markets closed for the New Year, and price rises of as much as 100% as rumors circulated that the value of Argentina's national currency might be halved again. Shell-shocked citizens waited for Erman, the third Economy Minister since President Carlos Saul Menem...
...pressure in their end all the time," Dooley said, "but we couldn't get it by them and all of a sudden they come down and got a fluke goal and that...
Even as he is thanked by the masses, Gorbachev is quietly cursed, only half- jokingly, by some in the foreign-policy elite for having kicked the centerpiece out from under the big top of American diplomacy. All of a sudden, the think tanks and back rooms of the policymaking establishment are filled with a new kind of head scratching. Some who have spent their careers fretting about the end of the world (the big bang of nuclear Armageddon) are suddenly lamenting "the end of history"; now that the good guys have won and the Manichaean struggle is over, humanity will...
...discontent of the populace to "miscalculations by the ruling parties." The East European regimes had long taken it for granted that their Big Brothers in Moscow would provide the brute force that is the substitute for political legitimacy in the Marxist- Leninist system. Now all of a sudden, the No. 1 man in the Kremlin was saying he would not back them up and that they had to find a way of making a genuine social compact with their own people, or fall. Hence the most amazing events of 1989 -- and of the decade: one after another, with breathtaking speed...