Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dashing defensive talents aside, Groome is a potent offensive force. Last year, as the sharp shooter on the Crimson penalty corner crew, she banged in a pair of goals and added an assist, finishing fourth on the team scoring chart...
...free press area came in a 1984 ruling in which he concurred in the dismissal of a libel suit brought by Bertell Ollman, a Marxist college professor, against the conservative columnists Evans and Novak. In language that went beyond Supreme Court decisions on the matter (and which provoked a sharp rebuttal joined by his then colleague Antonin Scalia), Bork wrote that a "remarkable upsurge" in libel suits and damage awards "has threatened to impose a self-censorship on the press" as effective as government censorship. Because the core value of a free press is clearly part of the original intent...
...after years of mammoth U.S. budget and foreign-trade deficits, the situation today is radically different. The buying of America has virtually turned into an industry of its own, with sharp-eyed advance crews scouting out the country's most attractively undervalued treasures, researchers typing up thick intelligence reports on U.S. acquisition targets, finance teams huddling with investment bankers in Tokyo, London and elsewhere, and blue-chip law firms constantly at work drafting reams of tender offers, prospectuses and sale documents...
...Equally sharp-eyed Canadian mining companies have snapped up the rights to some 40% of the new gold-digging projects in Montana, Nevada and other Western states. In Northern California, foreign investors have picked up more than two dozen of the region's 300 wineries, among them the Almaden label (now British) and the St. Clement Vineyard (Japanese). In Alaska, Japanese investors control more than one-third of the state's $680 million seafood-packing industry. U.S. farmland might be a bigger target for raiders, except that more than two dozen states have imposed controls or bans on foreign ownership...
...Brink's armored truck at a Massachusetts shopping mall. Two years later the merry band empties a Wells Fargo van in the same general area. "We're not dealing here & with a group of retards, my friends," says Inspector John D. Richards of the state police. "These are sharp minds we've got on our hands, making these withdrawals...