Word: abruptly
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Clinton's passage from honored guest last June to universal villain today has been abrupt. For a man given to feeling the pain of others, his initial damage control was not good. Touring tornado wreckage in Oklahoma the day after the bombing of the Chinese embassy, the President paused to offer his "regrets and profound condolences" but neglected to apologize. This was an insensitive lapse for the Chinese, who have rankled for decades because of Japanese politicians stretching syntax to avoid apologizing for their country's wartime aggression. With their prickly sense of national pride, the Chinese are quick...
University officials acknowledged thatyesterday's firing of the lieutenants was abrupt,although they stress that generous severancepackages were offered, and that the University hasoffered to assist them in finding new work...
...frame of reference. The book hops, often with little warning, from topic to topic and from literary form to literary form. But while its busy structure may be somewhat disconcerting, the clarity of each of Oliver's pieces and the meaning of her argument make up for its abrupt transitions...
With this defeat, Harvard's season came to an abrupt end, but the players have no reason to hang their heads. Not only did they play their best polo of the year, but they came within a single goal of the top two finishers...
...protect a woman against developing breast cancer, a new study suggests that if the child is born prematurely and the mother is over 40, her risk of breast cancer actually goes up 17%. The finding applies to first-time mothers only. What's behind it? Researchers think that the abrupt change in hormones that follows a premature delivery may be partly to blame...