Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bench was razor-sharp. Marshall had researched every related case.' But there's a certain exquisite pleasure in being skinned alive." Jonathan A. Schur '75, an appellee oralist, said last night...
Although this system seems to provide Princeton students with far more influence than their Harvard counterparts, the committee has come in for sharp criticism. The meetings are not open to the public, and committee members may not openly discuss the budgetary data they receive. Frequent leaks in past years have eroded the significance of this prohibition, but many students still view the restriction as a problem...
Thus businessmen are unusually cautious these days in planning for the future. According to a McGraw-Hill survey, they intend to increase real spending -that is, after allowing for inflation-on new plant and equipment next year by only 3%. That would represent a sharp drop from this year's increase of about 8%, which economists consider insufficient. Indeed, the Administration had hoped for an 8% to 10% increase in capital spending next year to keep production growing, bring down unemployment and continue the nation's recovery from the deep recession...
...shot boomed into the net after she out-dueled a defender for the ball against Smith, a 30-yard rocket into the upper left corner of the goal against UMass, and a sharp cut left to avoid Stonehill's center fullback before placing the ball into the left corner of the goal with her left foot, all testify to St. Louis's ability to score gowls worthy of any soccer player, male or female...
...everyone, that is, except American Motors?as usual. Alone among the four U.S. automakers, it suffered a sales decline, of a sharp 28.6%. That cut its long-sliding share of the U.S. market (excluding imports) from an already poor 2.9% last year to a nearly invisible 1.9% during the October period (its high was 6.4% in 1963). It was an inauspicious week for a new driver to take over. Nonetheless, Chairman Roy D. Chapin Jr., the man most closely associated with AMC's long struggle for survival, handed over the chief executive's job to President Gerald C. Meyers. Chapin...