After these areas of his body, however, the difficulty increased with the abruptness of a coastal shelf.

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These global giants usually reorder themselves at a glacial pace but sometimes, as in the volatile financial sector of late, with more abruptness.

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The first concerns the abruptness of the government's change of course.

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The source was understandably baffled by the abruptness of the news, along with the added blow that no severance will be offered and stock holdings are essentially worth nothing.

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The abruptness of his departure suggests that he failed.

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