To the practical administrator it is false to make a sharp division where independence falls.

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It also meant trying to make a sharp and direct impact on important levers with a refined focus as opposed to trying to boil the ocean and solve everything at once.

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He worked an 0-2 count full and lashed a sharp single past shortstop to make it 5-0.

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It's also thick and heavy with a puffed-out back, and the empty cradle's sharp edges make us nervous about putting it in a bag next to more delicate items.

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The product has a 7in screen, but Sharp has said that it would also make panels in 10in and 32in varieties, suggesting its use in other tablets and desktop computers.

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With close advisers, the Labour leader has pondered the politics of parenthood: does it make people more conservative, by which he means competitive and sharp-elbowed?

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This time, China, which has been accumulating these surpluses, now finds it cannot adjust its economy quickly enough to make up for the sharp decline in exports.

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This would make it harder for companies to raise fresh capital, and so lead to a sharp reduction in the corporate investment that has been driving America's recent economic boom.

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The Asian market was trying to make sense of the sharp currency move given there was little economic news overnight to prompt it.

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The waters off North Carolina's coast, for a host of environmental factors including sharp winds, shifting currents, hurricanes and a large shoal off shore, make it particularly dangerous for shipping.

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