Word: sharpness
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...defensive result was a sharp improvement over the three easy scoring opportunities allowed in its loss to Yale earlier this month...
...report on Google filtering came in the midst of an ongoing Berkman study of China’s Internet blocking practices. Sharp-eyed “netizens” first alerted Zittrain and Edelman to discrepancies in French and German Google search results, and the two ran checks on other sites known or presumed to contain controversial material...
Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), Harvard’s community service organization, which runs more than 20 tutoring programs, has experienced a sharp decline in participation this year. Its officers attribute this drop to decreased first-year volunteerism, as freshman often constitute a large part of PBHA’s membership...
...major cause of the underpopulation is that a large percentage of families, most notably in the whitest, wealthiest neighborhoods in Cambridge, choose to send their children to private schools. As a result, public schools have seen a sharp decrease in the number of students, whereas schools in more working-class areas remain a popular choice for blue-collar parents. This disparity comes in the wake of Cantabridgian rent-control abolition; as many working families who sent their children to public schools were driven out by steadily increasing costs of living, gentrification ensued and private school enrollment became more competitive...
...Wellstone had been locked in a tight re-election campaign against Republican challenger Norm Coleman and had begun to pull away in recent weeks, in part because this year's chapter in the Iraq saga provided Wellstone with an opportunity to remind Minnesotans that his maverick streak remained as sharp as ever. As the only vulnerable incumbent to vote against the resolution that would give President Bush war powers, Wellstone told the Senate, "Acting now on our own might be a sign of our power, but acting sensibly and in a measured way in concert with our allies ... would...