Word: sharpness
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...work, get a decent pay raise or buy a home must marvel at the peculiar worries of Bill Gross. A legendary investor, Gross runs the $76 billion Pimco Total Return bond fund. In recent weeks he has sold $6 billion in Treasury bonds, activity that has contributed to a sharp rise in mortgage interest rates. Gross, though, is more concerned about bad things that might happen in the future, not what's happening now. "Two or three years down the road," he says, "inflation might be a real pressure cooker...
...autobiography juxtaposed to comicbook tropes. One remarkable piece appears to be a superhero story, but all the words, including the onomatopoeia, read together as a short memoir of the author's childhood. But none of it gets lugubrious, since Ware remains at bottom a humor cartoonist. Painfully funny, his sharp wit specializes in an alternative kind of schadenfreude: a kind where we feel we are laughing at our own misery...
...cinnamon-flavored fries introduced and quickly shelved by Heinz last year. But for food purveyors, taking risks has become essential as weight-conscious and fry-fatigued consumers abandon the deep-fried spud. Americans ordered 900 million fewer servings of fries over the 12 months ending in May, a sharp 10% drop compared with the previous year, according to research to be published in October by the NPD Group, a market-research firm that has been charting American eating patterns for 18 years. That's a lot of taters, and it represents a huge loss of business. In 2002 Americans...
...sharp debate raged on Lowell House’s open e-mail list this week after security issues were raised concerning a new student-run web portal launched last Friday that promised a place to trade textbooks, read and give feedback on classes and plan a class schedule...
...Blair's spokesman to exert iron discipline not only on the press pack but on Labour politicians who might be inclined to deviate from the centrally determined line. He won high marks from the press as Blair led Labour's comeback and first years in government: competent and sharp, a brilliant tactician and worthy opponent, able to represent Blair's views with total confidence (indeed, sometimes before Blair had uttered them...