Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rule of Rangoon. All these groups long depended for most of their cash income not on jade but on the rake-off from the lucrative opium trade that originates in the mountain poppy fields of the Golden Triangle of Laos, Burma and Thailand. Now, with Thailand's sharp crackdown on drug smugglers, the jade trade is growing in importance...
Textron's chief is a sharp manager-but what else...
...tell reporters about him were that he loves to sing but has no voice, and that he delights in telling jokes but usually laughs so hard at them that he botches the punch lines. Otherwise, Miller sounds like a business version of a Boy Scout: frugal, industrious, a sharp manager, something of a social activist-and a man whose likely moves as the nation's supreme money manager are impossible to predict from his career...
Fitzsimmons attributed the increase to the sharp jump in number of early applications that stemmed from "an increased knowledge of the Early Action option as well as what it means for the student." Noting that students who apply early face no additional admissions criteria, Fitzsimmons said the program is "a service to applicants to relieve the tremendous amount of anxiety" of college applications...
...airing and disarming class anxieties. Most modern American fiction, on the other hand, remains generally psychological. In contrast, British novels still draw their deepest breaths from society and manners. Wilfrid Sheed, a wily English-born Catholic intellectual, can work both sides of the North Atlantic. Sheed's sharp, entertaining essays and reviews have earned him a reputation as one of America's best literary journalists; he is also a judge for the Book-of-the-Month Club. His previous novels, which include A Middle Class Education, Max Jamison and People Will Always Be Kind, have gained him entry...