Word: sharpe
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...sensation. His lack of worldly perspective is as present in his eagerness to embark on a business venture about which he knows nothing as it is in his coy admission to Sissel that she is the first person with whom he has ever slept. Sissel, by contrast, is considerably sharp-witted--acutely aware of emotional pain and other substantial problems resulting from the experience of her parents separation. Yet toward the end of the film, it is Joey who begins to understand the folly of his misguided enthusiasm and lack of direction while at the same time Sissel seems...
...closing statement, Bachrach, drew some sharp distinctions between himself and other candidates. He said, for example, that he opposes charter schoolswhereas Gabrieli supports them...
...week's business after the final big health-care vote, toasting their success with champagne. DeLay himself was back in his private office. His plainclothes guard, Special Agent John Gibson, 42, was sitting near the rear entrance when the normal merry chaos of the afternoon was punctured by sharp explosions in the hall. Gibson knew it was gunfire and had his hand on his hip as he moved toward the door. A leadership staff member yelled "Everybody get down, get down!" and pushed people under the desks and into side offices...
...profit corporation that receives reliable revenues, employs sharp-penciled "gatekeepers" who only grudgingly dole out "care" and cannot be sued may be an investor's dream, but it is a patient's worst nightmare. EDWARD K. GARRISON Chicago...
This was the sign meteorologists had been waiting for. Not only does the sharp fall in ocean temperatures signal the breakup of the giant pool of warm water in the tropical Pacific that triggered one of the century's greatest El Ninos, but it may also signal the birth of El Nino's unruly twin sister, the climatological reversal that scientists call La Nina ("the girl...