Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other ways to allay one of the major fears of SALT's critics: that the strategic balance is tilting toward the U.S.S.R. To demonstrate that he wants to counter Moscow's military buildup, the President has become a forceful advocate of bigger Pentagon budgets. This is a sharp reversal from his position during the 1976 election campaign when he created the impression that he wanted to trim defense spending by $5 billion. For fiscal 1980, Carter is pushing for almost $123 billion in defense outlays, a $10 billion increase. After discounting for inflation, this is a boost...
This revival of color-mainly mock-industrial color, the sharp hues used for coding function in factories-extends to other architects. The "high-tech" look that pervades Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer's projects is inherently slangy and decorative. If one buys a sculpture to perk up a building, it argues, one will probably get something made of brightly painted pipes, drums and I-beams. So why not forget sculpture and paint the ducts one has? "We've plunged headlong into the decorative arts," says the firm's head, Hugh Hardy. "Craftsmanship is busting out all over. It's clearly a reaction...
Across the hall, in the quiet Harvard locker room, Frank McLaughlin, looking sharp in a houndstooth blazer, is encouraging prospective freshmen, selling then on the merits of Harvard--the school and the future basketball power...
...need to stay sharp for the tough meets later in the season," he added, in obvious reference to next month's Eastern League showdown at Princeton...
Fitzsimmons attributed the rise in minority acceptances to a sharp rise in the number of minority students who applied through the early admit program this year. He did not quote specific figures, however...