Word: sharpness
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Those at the sharp end of any war were, as usual, going about their business last week with studied unconcern for stuff they didn't have time to worry about. At a firing range in the northern Kuwaiti desert, Marine Corporal Edon Willis, 23, who had spent most of the past week unpacking his kit and training, was asked what he thought about Powell's performance. "We didn't hear about any speech," he said. "We're just waiting for our orders." They're coming. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson, Mark Thompson and Michael Weisskopf/Washington; James Graff/Paris...
...election in July 1996 against seemingly impossible odds, and afterward enjoyed preferential treatment. NTV anchors got easy access to Kremlin insiders. Parfyonov, 43, became a star. His documentaries on Russian and Soviet history and culture were educational, entertaining and immensely popular. Namedni's informal style and Parfyonov's sharp tongue attracted a large audience. But all that changed when Putin became President in March 2000. Although Putin had run a media-savvy campaign, NTV enraged the new regime by its support of his opponents. After the election, NTV kept up its harsh criticism of Putin's new war in Chechnya...
...wood-paneled floors of the Adams House ArtSpace normally present a sharp contrast to the dazzling white walls of the converted squash courts...
Although Harvard didn’t look as sharp against Northeastern...
...sharp-tongued representative took the Bush Administration to task in his speech last night for what he called its unilateral foreign policy...