Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Part of the growth since these two ceilings were removed has been caused by the nation's changing attitude toward women's roles. But demographics play a further part. Because of the sharp drop in the U.S. birth rate in the 1960s, the number of 18-year-old males will peak at 2.1 million next year, fall to 2 million in 1983 and hit its projected nadir of 1.7 million in 1988. These projections threaten the military with a shortage of qualified men. The armed services will have to offer increasingly costly incentives to attract educated and motivated...
...Justice Department decided to let him plead guilty to a single count of conspiracy to defraud the Government, a blanket charge covering tax evasion and mail and wire fraud. He faces a $5,000 fine and up to five years in jail. Yet, through the same sort of sharp bargaining that made him his fortune, Estes is expected to be sent back to prison for only a couple of years at most...
...galvanized steel grating and 6 ft. of tightly woven chain links. Said George Norris, Houston manager for Anchor Post Products, Inc., which will build the fence for $2,015,000: "It's the heaviest construction I've ever seen on a fence." Because the grating is razor sharp, Norris added, anyone climbing the fence barefoot would "leave his toe permanently embedded...
...GALA OPENING of the new Kennedy School of Government Saturday provided sharp contrasts and contradictions that were almost lost in the hoopla of the Big Green and the Head of the Charles...
Harvard will travel to New Jersey to take on the ever-tough Tigers Saturday, and the confidence of the forward line will be key, as the defense has looked consistently sharp since the UNH loss...