Word: unforeseen
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...suspended all agricultural deliveries of the water it controls. Meanwhile the Federal Government warned of up to 75% cutbacks in the low-priced water from its reservoirs over the next few weeks. City governments convened emergency sessions to consider strict rationing for business and residential users. In the first unforeseen crisis of his new administration, Governor Pete Wilson stopped just short of declaring a state of emergency, instead creating a "drought action team" to draft a water plan in two weeks. "Concern is justified. Panic is not," cautioned Wilson. "This is a threat to our livelihoods, not our lives...
...other emotional pole, the depressive version presents itself, all darkness: a memory of Vietnam's self-delusions and waste, its follies on an epic scale, its nightmares of the unforeseen...
...Thomas E. Vautin, director of facilities management, said that electricity costs have already jumped an unforeseen 30 percent. Harvard currently allocates about $22 million of its more than $300 million annual budget on energy, Vautin said...
Bush continues to promote a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget. The President also pleads for the line-item veto, which would permit him to excise specific parts of large-appropriations bills. The proposed amendment is an illusion: it would have to allow for unforeseen contingencies such as war, and it would not have much impact for several years. The line- item veto, a scalpel wielded by 41 Governors, might be more difficult to use on the highly complex federal budget...
...under makeshift circumstances, Rosovsky makes his second appearence in the Faculty dean's office--a move he himself admits is an unforeseen twist in his extensive academic career...