Systematic evaluation of the explorer record for a region can provide ecological insights that are difficult to obtain by other means, and can be used to test prevailing assumptions common to arid systems that have been subject to abrupt management upheaval.
In an interview, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that the United States is talking to "as many people as we possibly can" about the situation in Syria, as well as in Lebanon, to ensure that Washington is prepared in the event of yet another abrupt political upheaval.
Can the continuing slow increase in worldwide temperatures touch off abrupt climate upheavals?
Some Europeans who had built lives in the UK are already grappling with the prospect of an abrupt and painful upheaval.
These approaches became very popular also in explaining abrupt changes in fertility behavior after the political upheaval in post-communist countries.
This trilogy of one-acts, unrelated except by setting, gives us Foote by way of Goldilocks — the first, "Blind Date," is comic but thin; the second, "The One-Armed Man," is potent but abrupt; the third, "The Midnight Caller," about social upheaval at a women's boarding house in the fifties, is poignant, funny, devastating, and just right.
Ms. Vitale is the latest casualty in an upheaval that began this month with the abrupt resignation of the company's chairman, Henry Winterstern, after disastrous financial results on its film releases.
After nearly a month of upheaval at The Philadelphia Inquirer, including the abrupt firing of the paper's top editor and lawsuits among its owners, the majority owners on Wednesday offered to buy out the minority investors, in what they described as an effort to provide stability to the company.
While there is no great desire to instigate further upheaval within the coaching set-up following the abrupt dismissal of Roberto Di Matteo less than a fortnight ago, Chelsea will consider more changes to their staff if results do not improve swiftly.
