Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expected to rule within the next month on the so-called Communications Decency Act , but, mindful that it has served for months as the law's passionate defender both in the courts and on the presidential campaign trail, the White House is expected to keep mum about its sudden change of mind until the Supreme Court takes a stand first. Civil rights activists and Internet advocates, while pleasantly surprised by the about-face, argue the White House should make its case known sooner rather than later. "It raises waffling to an art form," chides David Sobel of the Electronic Privacy...
...companies with names like Girl Games and Her Interactive. It's a market that has been all but ignored in favor of the seemingly bottomless appetite of boys and young men for so-called twitch games, like the bloody, light-speed shoot-'em-ups Quake and Doom. Why the sudden interest in what young women may want? In a word: Barbie. Mattel last fall released a disc called Barbie Fashion Designer that was a runaway best seller, proving once and for all that if the pitch is right, the girls will play. "There's always been an interest in marketing...
...Today I just don't know what happened. It just all of a sudden fell apart...It's a tough one because that was embarrassing," Craigen said after the B.U. disaster. "That wasn't just a loss, and everyone [in the locker-room] feels that. It's going to be a tough one to get over...
...equation the sudden departure midway through the season of Harvard's backup netminder, sophomore Peter Zakowich, which left Prestifilippo alone with sole responsibility for the Harvard net, starting in all but one of Harvard's 32 contests...
...hope for a sudden redistribution of wealth in America is even less productive than playing solitaire without a full deck, since you can still build a sizeable house of cards with the latter. Only the naive and admirably idealistic foresee the corporations and their contracted lackeys impulsively parting with their inflated salaries and offshore accounts. And as for the redistribution of political capital, the party bosses likewise seem to be holding fast to their power, even if only in exchange for a night in the Lincoln bedroom...