Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With this defeat, Harvard's season came to an abrupt end, but the players have no reason the 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...
...Pfeiffer, Compaq's president and chief executive, and Mason, its chief financial officer, will be replaced by a three-man executive committee with Compaq cofounder Benjamin Rosen at its head, but Rosen had little to say to the press about the abrupt transition. "The computer world is in a lot of turmoil," he told Reuters. "The issues are very complex and we felt we really needed a change in the leadership in order to keep our position as the industry leader." MORE...
...Jewish people. Though he writes stories which are genuinely and interestingly sad, the author often insists on adding a manipulative twist, making the occasional phrase sound whiny and trite. While his stories are always engaging, holding attention up to the last moment, Englander's endings are often abrupt and unsatisfying...
...second piece, "Maelstrom", choreographed by Mark Morris, was an abrupt change from the previous piece. Performed to a Beethoven Trio, the piece was quite classical compared to the previous one. With romantic costumes and a delicately clouded sky as a backdrop, the piece was classically Mark Morris, with its use of repetition, bringing themes and elements of the first two movements into the third, resulting in a harmonious cyclical effect...
...Prince Abdullah, made successor three weeks ago, is on the Jordanian throne. The abrupt dismissal of Hassan as crown prince did not elicit too much surprise in Israel. Abdullah has his father's politics and his father's support among the key factions of Jordanian society: the Beduoin tribe that hold the commanding posts in the military. But the predicted success and stability for the reign of the next Hashemite king was only a side-bar to the real feelings on both sides of the Jordan River this weekend: how to say goodbye to an ally who became a trusted...