Word: sharp
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General Motors is getting an even bigger boost. After GM collected $9.4 billion in federal loans last month, its finance arm GMAC, which GM jointly owns with Cerberus Capital LLC, got a Treasury Dept loan of $6 billion. GMAC has been hammered by both the sharp decline in sales of GM vehicles, which it finances, and steep losses in its mortgage portfolio over the past year. (Read "Is This Detroit's Last Winter...
...Japan contract at 5% this year, China's economy is very likely to shrink faster. It will be faced with a sharp drop in what it makes and exports. More importantly, large numbers of Chinese are leaving the huge new industrial cities and going back to rural regions where they can at least find work growing their own food. What is more than a trickle now could become a flood. Those who have gone back to non-industrialized sections of the country will not be net consumers...
...titles of every other book Hume wrote; don’t just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of “contemporary decadence,” like Natalie Wood. If you can’t come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...
...What she’s doing” included carrying the Crimson’s stagnant offense early on in the game, scoring seven of Harvard’s first nine points. Neither Harvard nor the Big Green looked sharp offensively, and the teams traded turnovers and missed jumpers in the opening minutes. At the 15-minute mark, the score was just 4-0 in favor of Dartmouth; at halftime, it was 20-19, with Harvard barely the better of two stalling attacks...
Needing a three to even the score and force overtime, the Crimson’s freshman point guard Brogan Berry fought off the press, and pushed the ball down the right side of the court. But with Berry looking to feed one of her sharp shooting co-captains, Dartmouth players swarmed her passing lanes. Somewhere in the traffic, the ball popped out of Berry’s hands and into those of the Big Green’s Darcy Rose...