Word: sharpness
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Facing “conceivably the three best forwards in [the ECAC]”—Jessiman, Lee Stempniak and Mike Ouellette—according to Mazzoleni, Grumet-Morris retained the sharp positioning and solid rebound control that had allowed him to limit opponents to just seven goals during four playoff contests...
...should avoid stamping conflict as religious,” he said. “We will create a religious gulf, the sharp edge of which will turn against...
Voters were also alienated by the Popular Party’s sharp condemnation of spontaneous anti-government protests on the eve of election. And resentment only deepened after the protests received minimal coverage on state-owned TVE, Spain’s main television station, which chose instead to air an anti-ETA documentary. By the time many Spanish voters reached the polls, they were moved more by anger toward their own government than by fear of additional al Qaeda reprisals...
...than political consultants--paparazzi? Jackson siblings?--but none so timely. Every four years, we hear how polls and pandering have cheapened democracy. But if giving the people what they want with scientific precision is not democracy, what is? This is the question raised--and not glibly answered--by the sharp Showtime movie Spinning Boris (March...
...Qaeda rather than the Basque separatists blamed by the government, voters showed up in record numbers to defeat Aznar's party. But even if the catalyst came from al-Qaeda, the election turned into a referendum on Spain's involvement in the Iraq invasion, and the result was a sharp rebuke of a government that had defied its electorate to march in lockstep with...