Word: abruptly
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THERE IS NO reality in Phillip Roth's new novel. The Counterlife is a story with so many U-turns and abrupt stops that it leaves the reader befuddled about what to believe or not to believe about Roth's fictional world. Roth, an old master, has created a story without the traditional beginning, middle and end, and by doing so he provides insight into...
With that announcement, the course of China's Second Revolution was suddenly called into question. A country that has gone through several abrupt changes of political direction in the past 40 years was perhaps about to face another major shift. During the past decade, Deng led the most adventurous economic reform program ever undertaken by a Communist country, and Hu, 71, was his steadfast second in command. The two pushed through economic liberalizations that freed the country from the iron hand of central planners and opened a road that appeared to lead eventually to more personal liberties...
Lawmen guess Dallas hightailed it back to Paradise Hill, a one-blink junction in northern Nevada. Bloodhounds tracked his scent to a barstool, then to an unmade bed in a nearby trailer and finally to an abrupt end at Highway 95. Though every waitress and cowhand between Boise and Reno seems to know Dallas, no one admits spotting him since the jailbreak...
Before he took his abrupt leave as the President's National Security Adviser, Vice Admiral John Poindexter mused, "An activist President cannot be satisfied with the status quo. A President must have a way to develop bolder options." Even David Durenberger, who as head of the Senate Intelligence Committee has had his share of harsh things to say about Reagan's swashbuckling, asks, "How in the world ((can)) a President make and implement policy in a world in which we're trying to anticipate events, rather than confront them after they have occurred...
...reversed during the Reagan presidency. White House researchers could find only two other examples this century of foreign policy vetoes that were overridden -- a World War II immigration measure and the 1973 War Powers Act, which Richard Nixon tried unsuccessfully to scuttle. In effect, Congress called for an abrupt end to the Reagan Administration policy of "constructive engagement," through which Washington sought to nudge South Africa into gradually liberalizing its system of apartheid. Instead, Congress adopted measures designed to bring about social change by exerting economic pressure on the government of State President P.W. Botha...