Word: sharpening
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...noting with characteristic sarcasm that the Pentagon general would be right at home talking about farm-support prices in Iowa. Alone among major candidates, Dole must always play nice, having fully exorcised the Mean Bob Dole who allegedly possessed him in past campaigns. So when there are knives to sharpen, he is forced to depend on surrogates; the Powell camp privately grumbled that the harsh conservative attacks and nasty rumors were being orchestrated by Dole loyalists. The Dole camp denied the charge...
...sounded more like a struggling single parent than an antigovernment desperado. The children on the lawn reminded him of Samuel, his 14-year-old son, who was shot and killed by federal agents. "He loved the outdoors," Weaver told a TIME reporter. "When we skinned deer, he would sharpen a knife as I cut into the hide. He did everything well. And my wife was so good with the kids ." Then he abruptly stopped. Tears filled both eyes. "I'm not as good a father as she was a mother...
...more competitive fields, the mighty yen has had the effect of making Japanese companies sharpen their edge by trimming payrolls and shifting work abroad. In the past two years, for example, Nissan has closed an assembly plant near Tokyo and eliminated 5,000 jobs, or 7.5% of its Japanese work force. "They just responded by becoming more efficient,'' says Geoffrey Barker, chief of research at the Smith New Court Securities firm in Tokyo...
...Newt Gingrich, the next Speaker of the House. After a short burst of conciliation on election night, he seemed disinclined to throw Bill Clinton a rope. The President, he said, would be "very, very dumb" to try to stand in the way of the new conservative agenda. And to sharpen the point of the election, he called the Clintons "counterculture McGoverniks...
Polanski has adeptly managed to sharpen the pace and buildup of mystery in this slightly convoluted detective thriller. Set in Southern California in the mid-1930s, the film seethes with human greed, political corruption and family scandal, so that it seems that even the land surrounding Los Angeles is tainted...