Word: sharp
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Administration sources say Scowcroft was blunter with the Chinese in private, telling them that since the U.S. had made the initial move to repair relations, Beijing had better reciprocate, and soon. He gave that demand a sharp twist, blaming the U.S. Congress for the frostiness in Sino-American relations. Says a U.S. official: "Scowcroft made very clear to the Chinese that our Congress is the main problem in the U.S.-China relationship, and that if the relationship is as important to them as it is to President Bush, they need to give a positive response, or a series of them...
...Sharp lessons for a Georgia matron and her black chauffeur in Driving Miss Daisy; Civil War blacks in Glory; and Louisiana's Earl Long in Blaze...
...stock prices and brought in fat advisory fees. Faced with a drop in the number of mergers and acquisitions, which fell 29% during the July-September quarter compared with 1988's third period, major investment firms have announced the layoffs of nearly 2,000 employees in recent months. Particularly sharp cutbacks have come at Shearson Lehman Hutton, which is dismissing 800 of its nearly 37,000 workers and said last week it would reshuffle its top management...
...sharp-witted, courtly man who tends toward diffidence, Havel seems an unlikely folk hero. He was the son of a well-to-do builder and restaurateur, and his early years were filled with governesses and chauffeurs. With the Communist takeover in 1948, the family's wealth became an albatross. Havel was denied the opportunity to attend high school or college. While working as a taxi driver and then in a brewery, he pursued his writing and in 1963 saw his first play, The Garden Party, mounted in Prague. In April 1968 Havel traveled to New York to see the Public...
...emboldened by the response to their call for a two-hour strike last Monday. At the stroke of noon, millions of workers and students took to the streets, shutting down hundreds of enterprises, from huge steelworks to the local Fiat service agency. Not only was the astounding turnout a sharp rebuke to the country's leaders, but it was a warning that a few cosmetic changes within the Politburo would not satisfy the demands for a more democratic system...