Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...levels of business, they are often the first to get the ax when restructuring starts. As a never married mother, Kim had a tough life; her conservative family shunned her when she decided to keep her child seven years ago. But nothing had prepared her for the sudden dismissal. "I felt so betrayed," she says...
Friendship is hit with a sudden, unexplainable epidemic. The frightful disease gnaws through the community and as confusion and fear engulf the people, their troubles are compounded by a prairie fire that threatens to incinerate the town...
...suggested reforms would institute mandatory contributions to the system from both employers and employees and provide "old-age insurance" to guarantee care for the elderly and "emergency insurance" to allow those hit with a sudden illness to afford expensive care...
...suggested reforms would institute mandatory contributions to the system from both employers and employees, provide "old-age insurance" to guarantee care for the elderly and "emergency insurance" to allow those hit with a sudden illness to afford expensive care...
...someone who is exceptionally lazy and proud of it, I am always on the lookout for things that will make my life even more friction free, which is why the sudden proliferation of all manner of electric bikes and scooters thrills me (in a low-affect, let's-not-unduly-elevate-the-heart-rate kind of way). You've probably heard about the E-Bike, the brainchild of erstwhile Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca, which went on sale (for $995 and up) at car dealerships in warm-weather states two weeks ago. I'm certain Iacocca is on to something...