Word: sudden
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...Casino. The governors of California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Idaho have declared 70 counties disaster areas. More than 15 people have been killed by the flooding, brought on by a series of storms that have swept through the area since December 26, and exacerbated in some areas by the sudden thaw of accumulated ice and snow. In California alone, 95,000 people have been evacuated from their homes as swollen rivers throughout the state wash out bridges and turn suburban streets into canals. The entire towns of Yuba City and Marysville, located on either side of the Feather River...
Sure enough, blood tests showed that the "flu" corresponded with the sudden appearance of HIV--and the total absence of any influenza viruses. Then, after a few weeks, the antibodies in the immune system would jump sharply while HIV disappeared from the circulation. It was the first evidence that HIV triggered an active infection. But not even Ho would recognize its significance until years later...
...ethics committee is scrambling to finish its work before that. While Gingrich's admission on Saturday--essentially a guilty plea to violations uncovered by the ethics committee's four-panel subcommittee--was clearly an attempt to speed the process, it also reflected a sharp, sudden change of course from his earlier insistence that he did nothing wrong...
...Lloyd Webber was upset with the musicians, Parker had first-day jitters and Madonna went home in tears. "I was so nervous," she says, "because I knew that Andrew had had reservations about me, and here I'm singing the hardest song in the piece. And all of a sudden there with everybody for the first time, it was really tense." Lloyd Webber and Parker met with her later, decided to bring in a new conductor and musicians, and started the recording sessions over from scratch...
This status, which was extended to more than 1500 Cambridge households shortly after rent control was abolished by a Massachusetts state referendum in 1994, allowed certain low-income residents to avoid a sudden increase in rent...