Word: sharpen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With cooperation from the weather, the netwomen should be able to sharpen their play this week in preparation for defending their crown at the Greater Boston Championships next Saturday. Usher expects the injured contingent of Pe, Smith and Debbie Kalish to return to action by the weekend...
Oberg lived and played with two of Cal's ruggers two summers ago. He and Ed Thompkins will travel to New Zealand this summer to sharpen their rugby skills...
...more exotic clothes: smocked leather samurai jackets, ballooning silk pants, kimono-inspired collars, obi sashes and details taken from ceremonial robes. "It's true I was influenced by Japan," says Armani. "But the real inspiration is born when you examine what you did last season and try to sharpen your focus, softening a line that was too rigid, changing a color that was too hard." As a former fabric designer, Armani starts every collection by putting together threads, colors and weaves in an innovative selection of materials. "He spends days just looking at fabric samples," says his business partner...
...explain to the court what you individually did and why you did it." To pressure Dinnan to testify, Owens fined him $100 a day for 30 days, and then sentenced him to 90 days in jail. Faculty colleagues raised most of the $3,000 to pay the fine. To sharpen the issue, Dinnan wore his full academic robes when surrendering to begin his prison term...
...arrows at wealthy foundations and companies, many of which can always afford a plaque on a building at one of the most prestigious universities in the world. But now that it's getting time to elicit the $1000, $500, $100 and even $50 pledges, Harvard will have to sharpen its we-really-do-need-it arguments...