Closed Captioning short line issue.

I am having an issue with Closed Captioning in Premiere Pro CC 2014. Whenever I create a caption that is very short, say, the word "No." or any combination of characters that is short, it screws up the following captions.
When the file is played, the caption previous to the short one feeds (in motion) across the bottom of the following caption in a single line.
Very strange. The only remedy, so far, is to eliminate the short caption.
Anyone else having this issue?

The duration doesn't seem to be the issue. It's the number of characters in the text. Although, I guess that the duration on those caps are shorter. I've resolved the issue by making the text longer. For instance, I had a caption that simply said, "No." I changed it to, "(giggles) No." and the corruption went away. Once, I couldn't click the center position block without the caption disappearing. Only leaving the caption in the flush left position avoided the corruption. Just had the issue again, with a short line. The only way around is to combine words in a slightly out of sync fashion so that there are more characters in each caption.

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