Word: sharpened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quiet, maybe a bit too quiet. America's economic problems seemed to be taking a summer vacation last week, as if to give the incoming Federal Reserve chairman, the new U.S. money czar, a few moments to plug in his computer terminal and sharpen his pencils before the first crisis. To a remarkable degree, everything was going Alan Greenspan's way, as the nominee prepared for the Herculean job of succeeding the retiring Paul Volcker. The Dow Jones industrial stock average zoomed to a new peak of 2572.07. The dollar, which had spent much of the past two years...
THERE'S REALLY not much in Cambridge for the social critic. Where Oscar Wilde had the stuffy yet elegant mannerisms of the Victorian British upper class to sharpen his quill against, his Cantabrigian counterparts have nothing more than faded rebels and pseudo-punks as the objects...
...tradition's rich biblical foundations. For Jews deeply concerned with Judaism at a personal and political level--and Walzer is such a person--these stories and the approach they embody are deeply persuasive. But Walzer forgets that the language of rights and duties, a language which Rawls attempts to sharpen and shape, has an enduring history for many Americans...
...movie actor sells. We drink Classic Cokes, listen to classic hits and wear classically tailored clothes. But dullness is not fought with boring, unemotional candidates. If the nation is to wake to the needs of it people, there must be a candidate with rough edges on which we can sharpen the blade of American political consciousness...
After graduation, the 17-year-old decided to take a year off from school. He hooked up with Riverside Church, an amateur basketball team located in the Upper West Side, to sharpen his skills...