Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overhaul of the rent control ordinance and others seeking to refine its mechanics. Proposition 1-2-3 would give families who have lived in rent control units for two or more years an option to buy the unit, and councillors and candidates alike say the proposal will draw sharp criticism in the coming months...
...epidemic of fear among the owners and tenants of asbestos-ridden office towers, shopping malls, industrial parks and apartment buildings. Even though the substance poses only a minimal health risk in most work environments, its widespread presence in the ceilings and walls of commercial buildings is prompting a sharp drop in the value of those , structures. It is also spurring a crash cleanup effort that may cost as much as $100 billion over the next 25 years. "Asbestos is the monster in the closet," says Richard Jones, a Connecticut attorney who represents mortgage lenders. "People's reaction is visceral...
Most vintage Dali was painted before his 35th birthday in 1939. In these canvases, like the familiar The Persistence of Memory, 1931, we are looking down the wrong end of the telescope at a brilliant, clear, shrunken and poisoned world whose deep mannerist perspective and sharp patches of shadow invite the eye but not the body. One could not imagine walking on that stretched, satiny beach among the oozing watches. This atmosphere of voyeurism lent force to Dali's obsessive imagery of impotence, violence and guilt...
...University's plans for the site have come under sharp criticism in recent months, as several faculty members argued that the lot's proximity to Widener and Lamont libraries makes it an ideal location for a new library or office building...
Members of the rational-expectations school, which holds that people keep a sharp eye on government policies and then act accordingly, were also caught short by inflation's fall. "If you had listened to me eight years ago," says University of Chicago economist Robert Lucas, "I would have predicted an inflation rate of 25% with these deficits...