Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where were the powers that put down the union in the last two elections? Two officials left, maybe to avoid the coming storm. But Steiner, a sharp strategist in the previous anti-union efforts and a formidable opponent, gave up the responsibility. That left Vice President Robert Scott as overseer of union matters. Where was he during the campaign? He had delegated his responsibility to Taylor...
...ground near Maui's Kahului Airport, Frank Rizzo was returning from lunch when he noticed Flight 243 making a sharp descent toward the runway. "It looked like a cargo plane with the big cargo door open, and it went into a kind of nose dive," he said. "The nose wheel hit first, and then the main wheels hit, and the entire plane settled and just sort of buckled." Even before the airport rescue vehicles arrived, two nurses clambered aboard to help injured and bleeding passengers still strapped to their seats. Many of the survivors rushed to congratulate Pilot Robert Schornstheimer...
...York City in 1986 to mark the Statue of Liberty's 100th birthday. That a serious poet would contribute his skill to a national celebration, throwing well-chosen words into the melee of fireworks, bumper stickers and beer, may seem surprising. Yet Wilbur's poetry has never drawn a sharp distinction between public and private occasions. The job of the poet, his work implies, is to be a messenger between outer and inner worlds, to specify and make memorable what everyone already knows or to give narrow personal experience the breadth of shared impressions. This dedication to communal speech...
Many economists think that the sharp decline of the dollar over the past 2 1/2 years will eventually reduce the trade deficit substantially by making imports more expensive and U.S. goods cheaper for foreign consumers. So far, though, the impact of the dollar's drop has been disappointing. One reason is that many foreign manufacturers have accepted lower profit margins rather than let their prices rise in proportion to the dollar's fall. Moreover, while the dollar has gone down by more than 40% against the Japanese yen and the West German mark, it has fallen much less against...
Gorbachev was clearly irritated when, just as he was leaving for a state visit to Yugoslavia last month, the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya carried a sharp attack on glasnost. According to persistent but unconfirmed reports, he concluded that Ligachev was behind the attack and reacted by stripping him of some of his powers over the Soviet press and television. Those powers were reportedly shifted to one of the Soviet leader's strongest backers in the Politburo, Alexander Yakovlev, 64. However, the Soviet leadership showed no sign of strain at the end of last week when Ligachev appeared with Gorbachev and other...