Word: sudden
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Baffled by the city's sudden popularity, everyone who lives there (and many who don't) tries to pinpoint exactly what it is about Seattle that makes so many people want to pack up their lives and move there...
Thus the concussion passes through the medium of media. The accidental video's evil instant becomes a sudden, globally repeated icon, replayed insistently until it erases the 1996 Olympics' prior signature of celebration and courage, the image of a young gymnast performing through her pain. In a split second, the story changes utterly, and so, for the moment at least, does the moral of the story. That's what bombs are for--to redirect the story line, or obliterate its earlier meaning...
...British researchers have concluded that nearly two-thirds of SUDDEN-INFANT-DEATH SYNDROME cases are linked to tobacco smoke. Even if a baby is merely in a room where smoking has occurred, its risk of dying from SIDS can increase...
...sudden the do-nothing Congress is doing everything at once. Why? Fear. A Washington adage says members of Congress care about only three things: getting re-elected, getting re-elected and getting re-elected. When Republicans returned from their July 4 recess, a privately distributed poll by G.O.P. pollster Richard Wirthlin showed that voters would prefer a Democrat to a Republican as their representative by 5 percentage points. In 1994 it took only a 2-point advantage the other way round for Republicans to win control of the House and the Senate...
...crucial clues are likely to be gleaned from the 747's so-called black boxes (now actually colored bright orange): one that records the cockpit's communications with ground control and another that monitors the plane's vital functions. Given the sudden end of the flight, the second box may provide more useful data. Experts, however, may be able to detect the "signature sounds" of a bomb explosion on the cockpit voice recorder. Last week the sturdily armored recorders were still beneath the sea, but there were indications on Saturday that the steady beeps given off by the black boxes...