We are in an economic crisis, and newspaper editors suddenly discovered they had no economists on staff!

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Everyone suddenly discovered the value of these small machines, and numerous companies jumped in to produce them.

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Two double faults were followed by an errant smash, and as Clijsters suddenly discovered her second wind, the American cut a disconsolate figure.

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In 1990, when Morris Lapidus was 88 and thinking of retiring, and a bit depressed that his life's work had gone unnoticed, he was suddenly discovered in Europe.

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But suddenly they discovered - surprise, surprise - there was no recovery.

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Suddenly everyone had discovered they needed one.

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That was when, suddenly, the Bush administration discovered that Putin was not a hard-nosed reformer but a rapacious and dastardly autocrat.

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But rather like Northern Rock, the British bank that became too dependent on the wholesale markets for funding and collapsed in 2007, countries such as Greece and Italy have discovered that investors can suddenly withdraw their favours.

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Jack was discovered Thursday, after four days of grueling searching, when rescuers suddenly heard a faint female voice calling for help.

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