Word: sudden
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Flush with a sudden $200 billion windfall, the Clinton Administration and Republican Congressional leaders agreed on a plan to balance the budget by the year 2002. The deal includes a net $85 billion in tax cuts over five years and could result in the first U.S. balanced budget in three decades. Negotiations went into hyperdrive on news that an unexpectedly strong economy had produced an additional $200 billion in revenues. TIME's Jay Carney says that the added money should bring many Democrats on board because it will allow deficit reduction while maintaining a level of funding...
...TIME last week. "It's just not a real dynamic. This President has been ultrasensitive to every constituency important to him for the last five years, since he got the nomination and since he's been President. It's just silly to project this idea that all of a sudden he's highly responsive to Democratic constituencies...
...very well be correct to say that television shows do not tend to change public opinion directly. Certainly after Murphy Brown--as a single mother--had a child (an example Oppenheim uses), there was not a sudden increase in the glamour of single motherhood. In fact, there was a backlash, led first by Vice President Dan Quayle and soon picked up by others who would claim to be defending "family values." The show did not make viewers believe that being a single parent was fun or beneficial; on the other hand, it didn't condemn out-of-wedlock children either...
...Ellen stepping out," said Costin Scalise about Pena's revelation. "She was protected by the Ivy wall, but all of a sudden you are forced to start the rest of your life. It's the unknown which triggers it in some people...
During the blizzard a few weeks ago, I was walking down Mt. Auburn St. with a friend when, all of a sudden, an enormous amount of snow fell from a building above me and knocked me down. Uninjured, I emerged from underneath a blanket of snow only to discover that pedestrians for blocks around were calling out things like "are you OK?" and "You should sue!" If you want to make friends quickly, try getting hit by several pounds of precipitation. -Pamela S. Wasserstein...