Word: sharpening
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...have all you want, where you want it, when you want it in an operation as big as the Government conducts. I ran out of lead pencils last night in my night-reading about 2 o'clock. I wondered why they didn't sharpen some that were there; they had all broken off. But there was nobody around to criticize, so I had to get up and go to my coat pocket and get a new pencil." He admitted that there have been predictable problems of supply in Viet Nam and that they would never be completely solved...
...remained one area of ironic negligence: the lack of strong federal laws against racial murder. Given the intransigence of many Southern juries, often nothing more than a fuzzy, fragile bit of Reconstruction legislation stands between segregationist killers and total freedom. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court moved to sharpen the focus - and the teeth - of those 19th century laws in decisions that dealt with two of the South's most wanton racist slayings: the June 1964 murder of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia, Miss., and the shotgun killing along a Georgia highway three weeks later of Lemuel Penn...
...sharpen their vision, they began building larger antennas. In 1946, they devised a new technique: radio interferometry, in which two antennas located at a considerable distance from each other are tuned to radio signals from a single source. Because the radio waves arrive at the antennas at slightly different times, they interfere with each other in a pattern that more sharply defines the position of the source...
...impact, aerospace profits remain low: 3.1% of sales against 5.5% for all U.S. manufacturers. One reason: in a little-noted change of vast consequence, cost-conscious Robert McNamara has switched Pentagon buying away from lax, cost-plus contracts toward fixed-price, incentive awards. Increasingly, defense contractors must sharpen both their engineering and their bids to win business. Efficient operators who trim costs or beat delivery schedules are rewarded with higher profits; fumblers are being winnowed out. Says Northrop Chairman Tom Jones: "It's a sporty course...
...professor witholds value judgments and lets the students perform, but may fire questions to make people sharpen their views. "Therefore, Mr. Smith?... So what do you propose to do about it? Are you going to hire more men? If so, how many and at what salary?..." Analysis is rigorous. It should consider as many problem areas as possible in each case; what is more, it should be followed up with proposals for concrete action...