Word: sudden
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sudden disappearance of some big financial companies as well as a cutback in lending activity at many banks has made it tougher and more expensive for companies to get funding. Hedge funds, too, which are having their worst year on record, have retreated from the lending business. And observers say the government's bailout plan won't change the problems companies are having getting funding anytime soon...
...dominated possession, had a shot miraculously blocked, and Crimson keeper Austin Harms was forced into a save with his feet from a point-blank header. It looked as if it was only a matter of time before the defending Ivy champions would open the scoring.Then, all of a sudden, everything changed; the match was turned on its head, and with it, the course of the Ivy League season as the Crimson exploded to a 4-0 lead on the way to a 4-1 win in Providence, R.I. With the victory, the Crimson (6-3, 3-0) took control...
...ball popped out.” “All the credit’s got to go to Peter on that one,” senior linebacker Glenn Dorris added about recovering the fumble. “I was chasing down the play...and all of a sudden there was the ball right there. It wasn’t that hard of a play for me.” The first fumble came after Harvard was unable to convert on a third-and-11 play from the Mountain Hawk 20-yard line and junior kicker Patrick Long missed...
...According to Ministry of Finance, Japan's banana imports were 970,000 tons in 2007, mostly from Taiwan and the Philippines. "It takes from 10 to 15 months to harvest bananas, so it is not at all easy to meet a sudden increase in demand," says Dole's Ohtaki. Dole Japan is trying to make up the shortfall by negotiating distribution deals with Dole corporations in other countries. Supplying the spike in demand will be lucrative, because banana prices in Japan have risen about 20% as a result of supply shortages that have coincided with the diet...
...This sudden, aggressive enforcement of environmental regulations has become almost a rite of passage for industrializing nations. Now it's Vietnam's turn. The communist government's embrace of the free market has lifted millions out of poverty over the last decade. But just as in neighboring China, environmental considerations have been largely pushed aside in the race to build factories and industrial parks, few of them equipped with adequate wastewater treatment facilities...