Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bill, they don't just happen. There's a perfectly good explanation. It's called "physical fatigue." It might also be called "scheduling stupidity." Time was that we played the Beanpot immediately after exam break. We were rusty, they were sharp. We usually lost. For the last five years we have found a new way to lose. We schedule games on Friday and Saturday nights before the Beanpot. Before the final we tried even harder to lose: games against numbers three and four in the ECAC in Upstate New York, a punishing loss to Colgate in overtime, and a long...
...mock match, he entertained Bush by donning a tank helmet like the one Dukakis wore in a TV ad. Next round, he displayed a pair of Heavyhands, the weights Dukakis uses in speed-walking. In the critique sessions afterward, Ailes says, "Darman was great: warm, funny and very sharp." Bush agreed. Despite his earlier doubts about Darman's team spirit, the President-elect told his transition team to forget about a list of prospects for Budget Director; he knew who would serve him best. Darman was delighted. Now he can put off a new version of his book for what...
...sharp jump comes nine months after the U.S. Department of Education began a "compliance review" of Harvard admissions practices to see whether the University discriminates against Asian-Americans...
...European Economic Community governments, in a sharp blow to Iran's hopes of improving relations with Western nations, decided to recall their diplomats for consultations and suspend high-level visits to and from Iran...
...cover everything from sports events to political conventions. When the Oscar for best picture is awarded in late March, USA Today plans to capture the moment with a professional Sony still-video system and transmit the pictures to printing plants in minutes. The shots will not be as sharp as those taken by conventional cameras, but, as Frank Folwell, the publication's assistant director of photography, puts it, "for a newspaper with a deadline to meet, it's the alternative to having no picture...