Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT prevents the book from becoming unbearably tedious is its sharp wit. There are moments in the book when the readers laugh aloud: a seven-year-old who chainsmokes steals the change he is supposed to be counting; a lisping grade-schooler is cured after doctors find "a button, a staple, a postage stamp and two buffalo nickels" in his stomach; a heated school election eventually degenerates into a food riot...
Meanwhile, state attorneys general in the Northwest and U.S. Senators from Nebraska called for a federal investigation into the sharp gasoline price increase since the March 24 Exxon Valdez spill...
Real estate experts have accused the FSLIC of being inept at dispensing with property in a speedy but careful manner. The problem, they charge, is that the agency is riddled with bureaucrats who cannot make sharp, quick business judgments. Says Sam Pierce, a Houston-based adviser to the thrifts: "The FSLIC doesn't know a good deal from a bad one. They don't have the necessary brainpower or manpower...
Powerful computers that can create sharp animated images are winning Oscars, designing sneakers and fabricating artificial worlds that viewers can explore...
...usual impregnable defensive wall and the more-stellar-than-usual sharp-shooting of the attack line sparked Harvard's victory...