Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remember any Ec 1 at all you can understand the pricing policy pursued. By far the largest group of passengers are businessmen, who account for 40 to 60 per cent of all passenger seatmiles flown. Demand for air travel in this group is relatively inelastic: even a sharp reduction in fares would not substantially increase the number of businessmen who fly--and it would definitely lose money for the airlines...
...Sharp Criticism...
Fine Arts 13 received some sharp criticism, as the audit suggested that the course adopt "a far more positive stress on developing a method of thinking, an approach to art, rather than simply gorging students with a mass of information and rhetorical terminology...
...surcharge well beyond its scheduled June 30 expiration date and resist various pressures for costly new Government spending programs, even when the Viet Nam war finally ends. For its part, the Federal Reserve will have to avoid the stop-and-go policies that in the past have produced sharp, erratic swings in the money supply and have brought criticism from some economists. The need is to show, as George W. Mitchell, one of the Federal Reserve's seven governors, puts it, that "we mean business in breaking the inflationary psychology...
...Womb Existence. With this sardonically bittersweet tragedy, the book begins to shift from a comic, rather hip tale into a complex and moving novel with sharp historic resonances. The grieving Graff delves into Siggy's notebooks, which contain a somewhat fictional history of his parents and of the marks laid upon their lives by experiences during and immediately after World War II in Yugoslavia and Austria. Siggy calls these notes his "prehistory," and his recollected stories seem touched by the bizarre influence of Gunter Grass. On the day in 1938 when Austria capitulates to Hitler, for example...