Word: sharp
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...across the pathway calls out to Burruss. “Excuse me!” she says. “I don’t mean to eavesdrop but I overheard your conversation. Do you think you could teach my daughter to sew?” The bold and sharp-eared woman explains that her daughter is a sophomore at Harvard and that she has been on the hunt for someone to give her sewing lessons. The characteristically humble Burruss laughs, but agrees to give the woman her contact information. While Burruss’ wardrobe choice of DHAs does...
Economist David Levy, chairman of the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center, says economic downturns up to and including the one in 1982 have largely revolved around temporary shocks to the economy such as high oil prices, backed-up inventories, lofty interest rates and other problems responsive to sharp correctives - after which unemployment rates eased in step with other recovery indicators. More recent recoveries from economic downturns, however, have tended to go forward without major gains in employment, a reflection of the fact that the underlying economic problems of modern recessions have been more complex and therefore more difficult to solve. Levy...
...more right. The event, which electrified the Harvard student body with a fervor usually reserved for consulting info sessions, served as a testament to the will that exists on this campus to use this moment to combat the pressing environmental challenges that face the world, and offered a sharp rebuke to those who argue that ours is a generation defined by apathy...
...perspective, think back on 1997, when a financial crisis began in Thailand and rapidly swept through first Asia and then emerging markets around the world. It brought currency collapses, massive debt defaults and sharp recessions in its wake...
Silly paranoia? (Cue creepy music here.) Or key elements in "The Enemy's Secret Plan"? Both monsters do exist, I'd say, but are only about 2 ft. (0.6 m) tall, scared of the daylight and lacking particularly sharp claws. The FBI is looking at ACORN for a reason, and the phrase ballot suppression is not a term totally unheard of in GOP hallways. That said, both sides are by and large trying to do what is right, at least most of the time. New-voter registration is a good thing. Keeping a sharp eye out to prevent ballot fraud...