Word: sharpest
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Since 65% to 90% of reported crimes involve cars, the cops see Corral as the sharpest new weapon in their fast-growing arsenal of computerized devices against crime (TIME, July 30). Though that is something to cheer about, last week's demonstration had the circus look of an elephant swatting a gnat. At least some of Mrs. Placente's ambushers might have been more profitably engaged in solving real crimes that occur in New York City on an average day: one murder, four rapes, 22 holdups, 41 assaults, 117 grand larcenies, 123 burglaries. Taken to court, Mrs. Placente...
...well-heeled fashion setters, who can lionize a pop artist with no claim to distinction except a five-year stretch in jail. And by shrugging off sex, dryly noting its acceptance as a sort of public utility, Darling succeeds where other entries in the movie sleepstakes fumble. The sharpest asides occur in Capri, where the future principessa and her homosexual photographer-pal compete in a game of one-upmanship involving a dark-eyed waiter...
Panel members eagerly heeded the admonition of Chairman Gardner that they were there "not to be lectured at but to be heard." The topic that stirred the conference's loudest and sharpest clash was the notion that federal grants may be followed by federal testing to assess educational results. Warned Commissioner Keppel: "The nation's taxpayers and their representatives in Congress will want to know-and have every right to know-whether that investment is paying off." John I. Goodlad, director of U.C.L.A.'s University Elementary School, proposed a highly selective sample testing of a representative...
...worried, I wouldn't be in business." Lyndon Johnson tried to ease the unease that Martin had aggravated, took pains to reassure the nation that "there is no reason for gloom or doom." Thousands of anxious investors sold their shares, sending the stock market into its sharpest drop since President Kennedy's assassination...
...with what the smaller issues have done so far this year. While the Dow-Jones stocks rose only 2% during the first quarter, calculates Wright's Investors' Service, the 1,226 commonly traded issues on the New York Exchange jumped an average 8% each. Among the sharpest gainers, Admiral Corp. rose 58%, KLM Airlines 94%, Allied Products 137%. Wall Street's smaller, cheaper issues (average prices: $52 for all stocks on the Exchange v. $75 for the Dow-Jones blue chips) have been sent up by Main Street's small-money investors and other private traders...