Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Steinberg's book contains the findings of a study he did which correlates lack of student achievement with a sharp decline in parental involvement between the end of middle school and the beginning of their child's high school years...
...immigrants, least of all Koreans. When Son started Softbank in 1981, his ambitions so unnerved his first two employees that they quit within two weeks. The 39-year-old Japanese entrepreneur, who made his first $1 million at age 20 by selling an electronic-pocket-translator patent to Sharp, never blinked. Barely graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, he begged and borrowed enough to build a company that by 1995 controlled half the Japanese market for personal-computer software...
There's no telling when, of course. We might see Dow 8000, 9000 and 10,000 before the next sharp market decline--the dreaded bear market. Incredibly, the current blistering pace would roll the Dow past those milestones by year's end. How far is up? That question is relevant only to those able to spot the market's top and get out before the herd--which is to say it is relevant to no one because while some may get lucky, no such expert exists...
...mannerisms, my walk, my talk." Nobody is going to car-bomb an actor who bombs; the worst he's going to suffer is bad reviews and, conceivably, a drop in his asking price. Even so, the evidence suggests that Depp is a man who comes into sharp focus and, more important, attains full life only when he loses himself in a role. The first time director John Badham met the actor he intended to cast in his thriller Nick of Time, he did not recognize him. "He looked like one of those Identi-Kit police drawings," he says, a rough...
...thrall to the urbane charm of his old ally Zhou Enlai, Deng seemed crude, speaking with a guttural Sichuanese accent and always keeping a spittoon next to his chair. His size--he was truly tiny--did not seem to diminish him, partly because he exuded enormous energy and sharp focus...