Word: sharp
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...audience responded with light applause, and Amy B. Diaz ’08 and Class Marshal Joshua C. H. Sharp ’08 presented the Fed chair with a gift of rock glasses for his home or office. Sharp cautioned against on-the-job use, saying, “We’re counting...
...Sharp looked around confusedly for a moment before deciding what to do with the framed degree...
...paradoxically, that both long ago and only yesterday I attended my own Class Day in 1975. I am pleased and honored to be invited back by the students of Harvard. Our speaker in 1975 was Dick Gregory, the social critic and comedian, who was inclined toward the sharp-edged and satiric. Central bankers don't do satire as a rule, so I am going to have to strive for "kind of interesting...
...agency claim that the global recession has the decisive factor in lower gas prices. Put simply, they say, poor economic growth caused a reduction in energy demand. But UIf Lantzke, executive director of the agency, has predicted that the recession must inevitably come to an end, hence causing a sharp increase in gas prices...
Faulks is a graceful writer with a bracing cold streak and a sharp eye for period detail (Bond's girl of the moment drives a white Sunbeam Alpine). But by now, Bond is so bound by convention--there must be exotic settings (Paris, Persia, Russia) and vehicles (the unstoppable Ekranoplan!), and the villain has to have an exotic handicap (a weird, deformed monkey hand)--that it's all poor James can do to wriggle convincingly under all that baggage. And escape, my dear 007, is quite impossible...