Word: sharp
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...widely-watched Federal Reserve conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo., on September 2. “The economy could suffer a very serious downturn” if the housing market remains weak, Feldstein said, according to a Wall Street Journal transcript of his speech. “A sharp reduction in the interest rate, in addition to a vigorous lender of last resort policy, would attenuate that very bad outcome,” he added. But there is discord in the academic community. Senior Lecturer on Economics Jeffrey Miron feels the rate should be left alone because Bernanke has long emphasized...
...were sluggish,” said Crimson head coach John Kerr. “We were not as sharp as we usually...
...looked sharp,” co-captain Matt Hoff added...
Still, Iraq has 115 billion bbl. of proven reserves and produces nearly 2 million bbl. daily, mainly from the Basra area in the south and Kirkuk and Kurdistan in the north. That's a sharp drop from about 2.8 million bbl. a day before the U.S. invasion in 2003 and an even steeper decline from a peak of about 3.7 million bbl. before the 1980 war with Iran. (From 100,000 to 300,000 bbl. a day are lost to smugglers.) The law would allow oil companies to explore hundreds of new oil fields under 10-year agreements and then...
Since 2005, for example, experts had been arguing that mortgage-lending standards had grown unsustainably lax, that real estate prices couldn't keep rising, that a sharp housing correction was in the offing. They were right. But those who actually worked in the business of writing, packaging and investing in mortgage loans couldn't act on such concerns and expect to stay employed. There was too much money to be made running with the herd. Or dancing with it, as Citigroup CEO Charles Prince put it in a memorable July interview. "As long as the music is playing...