The cresting of the PC wave is one of those phenomena that takes a long time but then happens very suddenly.

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Suddenly, the old but very spry Mother Superior dashed across the altar, evicting the soundman, who had to drag all his gear out of that holy zone.

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Lot of people were counting on him to get two or more gold medals in Beijing this summer, but now suddenly some young Jamaicans are running very, very fast, so he's going to have to put some good marks on the track in Oregon to let everyone know he's on top of his game.

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DoCoMo has proved this, but I would be very surprised if the world outside Japan suddenly decided to give DoCoMo a technological monopoly on wireless Internet access.

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But then after a week or two of this very heated debate they suddenly reached a compromise.

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Iran would attribute these to "the hand of God, " but the more pragmatic effect would be a very substantial portion of the world's oil suddenly removed from world supply.

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But, if present trends continue, many other cities will have to find creative ways to use some very large and suddenly empty buildings.

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