Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...survey conducted three times a year by the Rental Housing Association--a part of the board that consists of owners and managers of Massachusetts rental housing--has shown a sharp drop in market-rate rental housing availability in the past two years...
...Oracle, the company is struggling to position itself for a panoply of possibilities. Idei doesn't yet have the answers, but he has the nose. This is, after all, a man who loves music and movies, whose desk is piled high with video games ("They keep my reflexes sharp") and who collects cameras...
...There is a time for the world?s policeman to walk around half-cocked. Indeed, as we discovered in the cruise-missile fests of June ?93 and September ?96, spanking dictators can bring clinical conclusions to potential conflagrations. Call it the short, sharp shock theory of international crisis management...
Even after his years in a brutal South African penal system, the now gray and increasingly grandfatherly Mandela was endearing. We were glad to see that he had lost none of the sharp wit which we had come to expect after the famed Rivonia Trials which resulted in his life-sentence. Some of Mandela's statements during his American tour, however, were less endearing than others...
...Wall Street parlance, Monday's sharp decline was "a market event," meaning that it had little to do with the real economy and everything to do with the sheer unsustainable height of stock prices. That view makes the decline easy to swallow and lends credibility to the wisdom of staying happy and staying in stocks or, as the little guy did Tuesday, buying even more. "There is no reason to think the U.S. stock market is going to go into a bear market," says economist Allen Sinai at Primark Decision Economics. "The U.S. economy is not going to be knocked...