Best Practices for Text That Changes During Sequence?

I have been using creating videos like the one here, in which text shows up every so often over the scene:
Making The Walking Dead Pinball Machine - YouTube
Thus far, I've been creating a title, duplicating it for each time the text changes, and loading each title into the sequence at the time I want it to appear. Is there a simpler way to create text that changes throughout a sequence, so I don't have to worry about each overlay having slight differences in position or other attributes?
Just curious if there's an easier workflow for putting text over video.
Thanks!

You can also save yourself a few steps by duplicating the title through the Timeline by ALT+dragging it to the new location (which creates not only a new track item but also an independent new project item), then double-clicking the new track item to open it in the Titler for editing. But this refinement in your workflow has no bearing on the stated concern re: "differences in position or other attributes"--that's entirely a function of the changes you make within the Titler.

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Dear Oracle gurus,
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The first thing I would start with is:
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In your initial question you didn't mentioned about Synchronous Scenario
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Best practices for Refreshing Unv Structure for SAP based universes

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