Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese have been mostly looking, not buying, but they are clearly interested in acquiring advanced Western military equipment. This sharp and very recent departure from the Maoist policy of "self-reliance" in arms betrays Peking's deepening concern over the adequacy of its defense forces and the relevance of Mao's dictum that "the richest source of power to wage war lies in the masses of the people." For decades this "people's war" strategy led Chinese generals to maintain religiously that their hordes of soldiers would triumph over any attacker, no matter how sophisticated his weapons...
...thus portraying himself as an advocate of tax cuts and stringent budgets, Carter joined a swelling legion of vote-conscious politicians across the U.S. The President drew a sharp contrast between his position and that of Congress, which has been tinkering with his proposed $25 billion income tax reduction and threatening to spend more than he had wanted. But there were some signs on Capitol Hill that Congress had heard the California message too. Said North Carolina Congressman James Martin, a conservative Republican: "I see people who've traditionally voted for everything, no matter what it cost...
...class and racial differences. The New York Daily News, which asked readers to mark a "ballot" on how they felt about taxes, reported the largest response to any mail poll it has ever conducted. More than 117,000 replies overwhelmed the ballot counters, who reported that sentiment solidly supported sharp cuts in all taxes-property, sales and income. The Boston Herald American in a similar poll found that about 80% of responding readers backed a proposal to place a lid on property taxes at 2.5% of market value. A bill to do just that was introduced in the Massachusetts legislature...
...exhibition contains some sharp reminders of cultural relativity. Since the Japanese were more insular than any other advanced culture, East or West, foreigners were objects of intense curiosity to them. The Portuguese traders and Jesuit missionaries whose caravels found their way to Japan in the 16th century were known as nambanjin, or "southern barbarians." Naturally, the artists knew next to nothing of the habits of these white-faced extraterrestrials with their quaint, long spindly noses. Yet they became a popular motif on screens: gesturing from their ships, clumsy as grounded kites in their absurd pantaloons. They were to Japan what...
...probably unfair to apply very high standards to a book that, after all, pretends to be nothing more than entertainment. Breslin is a marvelously gifted writer, no matter what his topic; a tough, grown-up Irish-American punk, he has a street-corner sense of humor and a sharp ear for dialogue, and his characterizations of middle-class New Yorkers seem to have stepped straight out of the subway. Even in dubious collaboration with Schaap--a sportswriter whose previous literary accomplishments, if that is the work for them, include a bunch of as-told-to locker-room memoirs--Breslin manages...