Word: abruptness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before the Harvard-Penn match Saturday, Stanley was removed from the Crimson roster by Coach Dave Fish. Stanley's three-and-a-half-year career had come to an abrupt...
...trade sanctions that the U.S. has slapped on Japan since the end of World War II, and their imposition could well herald further bitter actions on both sides. "We do this more in sorrow than in anger," said Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige. Despite the obvious risks of such an abrupt change in the rules of engagement, the Administration's toughness earned bipartisan applause. Said Democratic Senator John D. Rockefeller of West Virginia: "It's about time we took some real action." Added Republican Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico: "There is no question the President did the right thing...
...Clifton Holt, artistic director of the National Ballet Company, is stabbed to death by a drug addict. His dancers had regarded him as a martinet, and his board of directors as a threat to their social ambitions. But what appears to be one more senseless Manhattan murder takes an abrupt turn when the killer is himself killed in prison after bragging that he was paid $24,000 for the Holt job. "Damn," says Reuben Frost, "will all this be in the papers?" Not a chance. For Frost, retired Wall Street lawyer and the dance company's board chairman, is also...
Hartwick's 1986 season came to an abrupt end with a 2-0 loss to the Crimson in the NCAA semifinals at Ohiri Field last November. And the Warriors are still trying to get back on track...
...when it came, was brutally abrupt for Donald T. Regan. Sitting in his office Friday afternoon, the chief of staff pronounced himself vindicated by the Tower report: "1,250 lines on 'What Was Wrong' and I'm mentioned in 15, less than 2%," he declared. He confided to TIME Correspondents David Beckwith and Barrett Seaman that he planned to resign Monday, on his own schedule. But he was clearly unsettled. No, he didn't know who his successor would be, and no, he hadn't been invited to a Reagan summit that night to discuss presidential strategy...