Word: sharp
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...laser-sharp focus directed at the LAPD may be partly due to public perception: These cities have wildly divergent police cultures. Philadelphia police were widely praised for their humane approach to the protests, but they also came onto the scene bearing far less baggage than the LAPD toted into Monday night's confrontation. There is a palpable distrust of police here, stemming back decades, and the ongoing investigation into corruption charges have only served to broaden the chasm between many Angelenos and their ostensible protectors...
PATTY ABRAMSON, 55 One of Washington's key providers of start-up money for entrepreneurs with vision, drive and a compelling idea, Patty Abramson knows a thing or two about start-ups from her own experience. In 1989 she left Hager, Sharp & Abramson, which was among the first female-owned advertising and p.r. firms in the capital, to start Abramson Communications. The scarcity of women-owned companies like hers inspired her in 1997 to found the $30 million Women's Growth Capital Fund, the largest venture-capital fund in the eastern U.S. and one of the few to focus...
...pick up stage directions, including the prohibition on wearing a white shirt on TV. But unlike other speakers, Powell did not have to turn over his speech to the Bush high command. However, he did phone Bush that afternoon to alert him that he would be making "some sharp comments." "The Governor," Powell told me, "was fine with whatever I wanted...
...distance, a tiny war: NYT checks in with the Reform party with an up-to-the-minute "battle for the soul of" piece. The showdown will go down in Long Beach this weekend, and the gathering "promises some sharp skirmishes." Hope it's not another bum steer...
...miles above Horseshoe Bend, Idaho, the country changed so abruptly I might have drifted off at the wheel and awakened on a different continent. I was in steep, sharp geography, beside the tumbly Payette River, rising into mountains thick with ponderosa pine and Douglas fir. The air should have been pristine and crystal-cool in that setting; it remained as ominously hot and dry as desert...