All of a sudden, people start talking to me about the presidency...

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And all of a sudden, the levees start collapsing and all of the water just backs into the city and fills it up like a cup of tea.

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Many on interest-only mortgages now face the prospect of a sudden, dramatic rise in payments, as they start paying off the capital, when their mortgage term ends.

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So the only question is, how would an investor or a trader know that all of a sudden, these horrid ongoing news stories were going to start to matter?

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As a string of cars pulled up to drop off the sport stars, Omari and Sukhpeet quickly learned that a sudden burst of flashbulbs from the waiting photographers was a sign to start preparing for the next big name.

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For those not cognizant that there was roughly a year until the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, a sudden injury to American World Cup alpine ski racer Lindsey Vonn served as an immediate reminder that the Sochi Games are quickly approaching.

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