Word: suddenness
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...been six years since the east asian crisis began - a sudden collapse of the currencies followed by recession and depression. From East Asia, it spread around the world until some feared the global economy itself might be approaching collapse. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) came charging to the rescue, but its programs did little to fix the problem. In fact, critics such as myself argued that IMF policies - particularly its insistence on premature "liberalization," or forcing recipient nations to open up their financial markets to often volatile short-term capital flows - had helped bring on the contagion, and that...
Midway through the second half, Moran tacked on an insurance tally, pulling past her defender with a sudden burst and heading in a cross from senior striker Alisa Sato, whom she had replaced in the first half...
...faster-acting anthrax vaccine that by next year is expected to complete Phase I clinical trials, in which a substance is tested on healthy volunteers to evaluate its safety in increased doses. Current anthrax vaccines require 18 injections over six months. That's too slow to defend against a sudden widespread outbreak or to permit people to return safely to contaminated homes and workplaces, where spores may linger for years...
...sergeant said that Trombly’s sudden move had brought back memories of the 1993 death of academy classmate Thomas F. Rose, a BPD officer fatally shot with his own weapon by an arrestee in a station house as Byrne looked...
...steeplechase; he also scored a gold medal for his home country: Qatar. Qatar? That's right. Last month the lithe 20-year-old middle-distance man swapped his Kenyan passport for a Qatari one and took a new name, Saif Saaeed Shaheen. At the time, the sudden ID change, and a reported salary agreement of $1,000 a month for the rest of Shaheen's life, raised eyebrows in the sporting community. But Shaheen's victory for Qatar last week - which caused Kenya to lose an event it had won at each of the last six World Championships and every...