Word: sharp
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...midst of a sharp decline in financial markets that has sent shockwaves across the globe, Bernanke, a former Winthrop House resident, has earned both praise and ire for his active role in trying to alleviate what he has recently acknowledged might be a recession...
Tusk's line on the missiles was a particularly sharp departure from his predecessor, but not the only one. The previous government, led by Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, whose identical twin Lech is still Polish President, was so plagued by in-fighting, scandal and sour relations with Poland's neighbors that Tusk's victory in last October's election can be partly ascribed to the relatively competent impression he makes. But Tusk's success also represents Poland's growing acceptance of free-market ideas. In 1993, an economically liberal forerunner to the party that Tusk co-founded in 2001 drew...
...Mission Bay in San Diego against stiff competition—the field included defending national champion Washington as well as runner-up Stanford. While the varsity eight placed third in its division, the second varsity eight defeated Washington and Cal’s second boats to capture the Sharp Cabrillo Cup with a time of 5:52.31. “The race went really well,” said senior bow seat Breffny Morgan. “Our boat got off to a really clean and powerful start and the pace we set was controlled through the middle...
...looked as though Garin might be sidelined from the 2008 race, after his initial client - former Virginia Governor Mark Warner - decided not to run. Garin began working quietly for the Clinton campaign about three weeks ago, and has chosen not to take an official title, which is a sharp contrast from Penn, who insisted on being referred to as the campaign's "chief strategist...
...director rose to the challenge with one of the boldest, tautest films of the postwar crime cycle. Finally, he was in the gnarled noir territory that suited him. The story of a vicious prison guard (Hume Cronyn) and the angry cons under his boot, Brute Force is a sharp evocation of unrest in a totalitarian state. It also set up motifs Dassin would keep returning to. Here, as in Rififi, the lead character (Burt Lancaster) is a criminal who has our sympathy, and at the end, pocked with bullets, must complete one magnificent exploit before life seeps...