Word: sudden
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nothing else to do." Look out, seedy vice dens, Las Vegas is going global. Macau, Britain, Thailand and even squeaky-clean Singapore are being bombarded with billion-dollar investment offers from the same companies that made a strip of Nevada desert synonymous with over-the-top entertainment. The sudden urge to export Vegas-style casinos stems as much from regulatory reform abroad as from limited growth opportunity in the States. Indeed, after MGM Mirage announced plans last month to build a casino in Macau, Merrill Lynch predicted that the development would add five times more value to the company than...
...another mostly along the ground, picking out team mates with accurate passing in a slow buildup, like a chess game, that sought to pull one of the opposing defenders out of position in order to create a gap through which a decisive pass could be threaded for a, sudden, lightning fast attack and shot on goal. No speculative long balls into the penalty area in Italy; Italian teams sought to retain possession until such time as a gap was created. The rules of physical contact were different, too: Italian defenders could dish it out, but their strikers were conditioned...
...Another Day. But since childhood Hamilton had been mesmerized by the huge outer reef breaks that appeared after some Pacific winter storms. He regularly surfed the biggest waves he could catch: "It is as if you are on a racetrack, and it is moving too, [and] all of a sudden turns pop up and bumps are flying at you ... and that is part of the excitement," he says. But as the swells got bigger, their speed increased, and even Hamilton's pumped-up arms couldn't paddle fast enough to launch him onto the fiercest waves before they passed underneath...
...Last Train Hugh Sidey described the journey of Nancy Reagan and her family as they flew to Ronald Reagan's grave site in California [THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY, June 21]. After the sudden death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt took a similar journey as a special train carried F.D.R.'s coffin from Warm Springs, Georgia, where he died, to Washington and then to Hyde Park, New York. The train drew hundreds of thousands of mourners all along its route, many openly weeping as the cars moved by. Here is part of our report on the first...
Ducey’s sudden and muted departure comes amid concerns from Bureau employees that the organization’s mission would be undermined by a new structure. These complaints were voiced in the March letter from 11 full-time Bureau counselors...