Word: sharpness
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...play, I missed it. I feel terrible.”Just as Dorris’ team-leading seven tackles were overshadowed by the final drive, so too was the solid performance of senior quarterback Liam O’Hagan and the retooled running game. O’Hagan looked sharp, completing 19-of-30 passes for 264 yards and two touchdowns while also running for 65 yards on 11 carries. He was particularly efficient on Harvard’s two second-quarter touchdown drives, working off play action and designed runs to march the Crimson 92 yards...
...August 31 surveys showed that neither of the two major parties had polled over 40%, raising concern among pundits, pollsters and analysts that Sunday's winner may either have to share power with a smaller party or govern with a flimsy mandate. For the reform-minded Karamanlis, a sharp reduction in his party's parliamentary majority may hobble implementation of key economic and social reforms, including the sell-off of ailing state enterprising and revamping of the nation's moribund social security system. "In that scenario," says Anthony Livanios, head of AlphaMetrics, an Athens-based polling agency, "even one lawmaker...
...best way to avoid the fate of sellers who watch their property languish (the average sell time is eight to 10 weeks) is to hit the field with a bang; the house should look sharp (fresh paint, fresh flowers) and be priced to move. "People used to try a higher price and see what happened," says Realtor Judy Moore, based in Lexington, Mass. "Today, when the buyer has so many choices, you don't want to sit on the market for 30 days and then reduce your price. That buyer is long gone...
Josh Schwartz, creator of The O.C., fills the ironic-teen-soap void that's been open since, well, The O.C. was canceled. Manhattan prep schooler Serena (Blake Lively) returns from a mysterious exile and shakes up Upper East Side society. Packing a sharp designer shiv, this clever saga of haves vs. have-mores proves the East Coast can be as enjoyably sudsy as the West...
...widely-watched Federal Reserve conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo., on September 2. “The economy could suffer a very serious downturn” if the housing market remains weak, Feldstein said, according to a Wall Street Journal transcript of his speech. “A sharp reduction in the interest rate, in addition to a vigorous lender of last resort policy, would attenuate that very bad outcome,” he added. But there is discord in the academic community. Senior Lecturer on Economics Jeffrey Miron feels the rate should be left alone because Bernanke has long emphasized...