Some of those characters argue or carp in give-and-take as sharp as a newly stropped tonsorial tool.
As more and more useful, content-rich cooking information for the home chef has migrated online and into apps like "Epicurious, " tablets have become as indispensable in the kitchen as a sharp knife.
Yet even Obama's Libya policy is not as sharp a departure from Bush's foreign policy as his Israel policy is.
And lenders have as much to lose as individual homeowners from a sharp fall in house prices.
Ninety years old and still sharp as a tack, his tales of self-induced disasters are worth recalling as we live through yet another.
Both goaltenders were sharp as Miller made a quality save on Toronto's Leo Komarov while Scrivens twice denied Thomas Vanek with a nice split-pad save.
Michael Merzenich, a UC, San Francisco professor, has developed computer games that might help Alzheimer's patients improve brain function (" Sharp As A Tack" ).
He opened the coop and stuck his hand in toward the fierce creature inside, eyes yellow, beak sharp as a cat's claw, trilling a warning so low it was almost a growl.
Photo Rumors hears the two shooters will switch to a newer, faster hybrid (both contrast and phase detection) focusing system that also includes Sony NEX-style manual focus peaking, which provides a rough visual guide as to when a subject is as sharp as possible.
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The forms of self harm recorded by hospitals included drugs overdoses, attempted hanging and deliberate injury with a sharp object such as a knife.
Many have become (perhaps excessively) risk averse, as is also reflected in a sharp decline in corporate investment even as their productivity, exports and profits soar.
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Suppose export growth fell to zero next year, as a result of a sharp slowdown in America.
Paper and consumer care products maker Kimberly-Clark said first quarter earnings fell 8.9%, largely as a result of a sharp increase in costs that the company pays for materials like wood pulp.
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In my career as a retailer, or as an analyst, I have never seen such a sharp drop in sales in just one year.
But it already serves as a sharp warning to U.S. companies doing business overseas.
WHO, can be counted upon to enter almost any health debate as a sharp-tongued sceptic.
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The government said it was right that head teachers were using short, sharp shocks as a punishment.
Meanwhile, the Russian rouble weakened as a sharp midday sell-off on the Moscow bourse prompted foreign investors to repatriate their cash.
Zega and Dams' watercolors are composed of hundreds of such discoveries, alive with exacting details as sharp as the facets of a gemstone.
U.S. dealers are growing concerned about tight supplies of Toyota's popular Prius as a sharp rise in gasoline prices is boosting the hybrid's sales.
In game you cannot run fast enough when this track starts and out of game, it serves as a sharp, exclamation point in the surrounding somber pieces.
Seen as a sharp, young "golden boy" who at 45 had turned around Bristol's drug and medical device divisions, he was the handpicked successor of former Chief Executive Charles Heimbold .
Its near-spherical wheels spin on some complicated gimbal system, allowing it to hang a sharp left without describing anything as tedious as a curve.
All of which makes The Boy with No Name that much more of a sparkling surprise, as Travis returns with a sharp batch of winning pop songs.
The camera records what happens inside and outside the vehicle but saves the recording only when it senses a sudden movement such as hard braking or a sharp turn, Muth said.
Not as loudly, though, as over the Spotlight issue, which is a sharp punch to the gut for creators.
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When lightning strikes a plane, the bolt typically hits a sharp part of it, such as a wing tip.
Turns out, a good chunk of it resulted from the price spike in the quarter for hard disk drives, which saw a sharp fall-off in supply as as a result of the recent severe flooding in Thailand.
These reforms produced a sharp fall in unemployment just as Europe began to enjoy a productivity spurt from the spread of information technology.
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