Word: sharpers
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...bright side, Giampaolo was good on both his field goal tries, a wobbly 34-yarder that was on its last legs as it cleared the crossbar and a much sharper 43-yarder that had a good ten yards to spare and tied his career long...
...seemed to suggest that Chrysler could not compete when it came to high-quality cars. At the same time, Ford hopes to rev up sales of its once wildly popular Mustang with a retooled model that combines the silhouette of the '60s original with what the company calls sharper-edged and more contemporary styling...
...kilter. Like Ronny' missing big toes, there is a sense that something profoundly important lies just out of four sight. The cadence of the sentences resound at the level of a missed heartbeat: "He turned and cut into the sandwich. The yolk was cold, and the blade was much sharper than he'd anticipated." The resonances eventually swell to an emotionally intense climax, as Nathan and Jim's secret about their awful father is drawn to the fore...
...greatest doubts center on the validity of Zemsky's measures of such amorphous qualities as "confidence," which struck some of the participants as mushy. "He's got to be a bit sharper in defining the qualitative measures," says David Paris, associate dean of faculty at Hamilton College. Zemsky plans to do a second test this coming year and hopes to have the project up to scale with 600 institutions by 2001. If the schedule holds, future collegians may have a better view of what they're buying in the next century...
...sort of baroque moon colony completely sealed off from the outside world, with computer-controlled sky effects that cycle from rosy-fingered dawn to purple dusk on the roof vaults above, and pastiche Roman statuary, and outlets for every brand name you ever heard of: Gap, DKNY, Gucci, Sharper Image, Banana Republic, Calvin Klein...