Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most of America, Albright, 60, is the new face of foreign policy for the Clinton administration. Since moving up from her former post as Ambassador to the U.N. in January, she has drawn a sharp contrast to the dry, lawyerly style of her predecessor, Warren Christopher...
...razor-sharp ability to define American interests set her apart from other Democratic foreign policy thinkers early on," says Tom Oliphant '67, a Washington columnist for the Boston Globe and a friend of Albright...
...bring reasonable doubt. It's about all McVeigh attorney Stephen Jones has left. After more than two years of preparation, spending between three and ten million dollars on the case, Jones presented only 25 witnesses in three days of testimony. The suddenness of the defense argument, contrasted with a sharp and thorough prosecution that crisply made its points with more than 125 witnesses over three weeks, had many believing the defense had blown it. But Cole notes that McVeigh's lawyers made inroads in closing arguments that attacked star prosecution witness Michael Fortier and the forensic evidence in the case...
...think this match proved that there should be no special anticomputer strategy. To beat this machine, I just have to play great chess. I need comprehensive, bullet-proof opening preparation that checks all sharp lines of play to avoid any flaws--which can be deadly when playing Deep Blue. I need physical and psychological stability, a great level of concentration and a mind free of other distractions to calculate, calculate and calculate...
Jacket copy for The Tenth Justice promises "dialogue as true as it is sharp-witted." But sure enough, by page four, a superior is telling our hero Ben Addison, "You are the hottest property on the board. You're Boardwalk and Park Place...