They talked about that, bewildered by the strangeness they had returned to, wondering if in this country so abrupt a transformation was ordinary and usual and was often to be found.
The technology world is abuzz today with news of the abrupt departure of a key executive at Microsoft.
Gross' arrest brought about an abrupt end to a thaw begun when President Barack Obama was first elected in 2008.
It was an abrupt move for a franchise that hadn't changed coaches since Ruff was hired in the summer of 1997.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's match and season came to an abrupt halt after a late challenge by Ugo Ehiogu, and he was replaced by Jordi Cruyff.
In 2007, her season was brought to an abrupt halt with a badly twisted right knee in slalom training at the Are world championships.
The abrupt cancellation of a hydroelectric dam project being built by China suggested a regime anxious to move away from a dependence on its northern neighbour.
The letters to his mother about life in the Royal Navy came to an abrupt halt with a telegram of his death on the HMS Royal Oak, torpedoed in Scapa Flow by the German submarine U-47 in October 1939.
Its abrupt reframing from a heroic struggle against a cruel occupier into a vicious, self-destructive internal scrap exposes the schisms that other Arabs share with the Palestinians between inept authoritarian rulers and restless subjects, between national and religious markers of identity.
But this proto-parliament meets for only a week a year, issuing abrupt decrees that reflect its underlying role as a sort of trade union representing entrenched bureaucratic interests.
It's like in a movie where you do something abrupt with one production element to disguise a transition into another.
That is a reason for the Reserve Bank to nudge up rates early, rather than to be forced into a more abrupt tightening later.
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But the devolution of design isn't usually a single abrupt act.
Over the last two years, strikeouts are at a historic high, reaching 7.7 this year, a rather abrupt rise of 10% above what they were in 2009.
It has been jolted - there can surely be few other countries to have experienced quite such a devastatingly abrupt collapse - in the most extraordinary fashion.
Paul Hart's side suffered a bad blow after only two minutes when skipper Des Walker limped off, bringing an abrupt end to his recall after a thigh injury.
The abrupt change of plan follows a difficult year for the firm's hospital business.
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The aftermath of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan is a warning against abrupt departures, leaving ill-resourced governments behind.
And I don't think anyone can say with confidence that we're safe from a large scale abrupt change in the North Atlantic.
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But his abrupt departure in January for a Turkish hospital, supposedly to be treated for bronchitis and to undergo unspecified tests, has brought the succession question to the fore.
The new research provides some support for this theory, as well as demonstrating that abrupt temperature changes can have a long-term impact on ocean currents which are, as the Gulf Stream demonstrates, intimately tied to weather systems.
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Britain is calling for urgent action to prevent a Greece-style financial crisis in Malawi, one of the world's poorest countries, where recent political turmoil, a suspension of foreign aid, and an abrupt currency devaluation have conspired to leave the new government with a gaping hole in its budget.
His dismissal of the case was abrupt, and inexplicable except as a form of judicial advocacy.
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She is given to abrupt changes of direction, suggesting a readiness to abandon principle for political gain.
The Film Council this week was arguing with the Treasury for at least a transition, not abrupt change.
Fears that it might presage attacks on other companies seem confirmed by this week's news of an abrupt tax claim on VimpelCom, a telecoms firm.
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Until very recently the field of challengers looked uninspiring, particularly after the abrupt withdrawal of Muhammad Khatami, a liberal reformer who won overwhelming victories to serve as president from 1997-2005.
In an abrupt move, Rachida Dati, a former justice minister who fell out of favour with Mr Sarkozy, was deprived of the chauffeur-driven car she had hung on to despite leaving her job to become a member of the European Parliament.
Villa are beginning the search for a new manager after the abrupt departure of O'Neill, 58, on Monday.
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