Word: sharpers
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...experiment, the researchers asked people to pick between two models of digital camera. Model A, the subjects were told, took sharper photos, and model B took ones that were more vivid. They were shown examples of photos taken with each camera, and told they'd never print a photo larger than the sample. Twenty-six percent of people chose model A. Yet when another group was told the same thing, and given the additional information that model A was a 4-megapixel camera while model B was a 2-megapixel version, a full 75% chose model A. "People...
...Mediterranean tuna trade earns millions in tax revenues for Europe and employs thousands of Spanish and Italian fishermen, whose livelihoods have been pummeled by declining stocks in recent years. The specter of further job losses amid a global economic downturn has militated against European officials pressing for sharper cuts in bluefin-fishing. "None of the [fisheries] commissioners want to come back home and say, 'I have saved bluefin tuna but I have ruined my fishing industry'," says Fonteneau, who estimates that fishermen make as much in one month selling high-priced bluefin tuna as they do during an entire year...
...retailers have enjoyed some very fat years. In June, government figures showed that free-spending British families had racked up debts equivalent to 173% of their incomes, by far the highest ratio of debt to income among G7 nations. That's one reason why the IMF has predicted a sharper contraction in Britain than in other advanced economies...
Matthew W. Smith, the manager of Club Passim, said he sees Pauley as a dynamic musician whose song writing “keeps on getting sharper and sharper.” “She sells out Passim pretty easily,” he said, describing Pauley as a folk-based act with a rock sensibility. “She can pull it off with or without a band. When she’s solo, it’s just as powerful...
Once the town hall stuff fell through you guys became much sharper against Obama and took a lot of grief, especially from the press, for about a lot of those attacks on Obama...