The mules made a sharp about-face on the narrow trail, showing off their sure-footedness.
Arizona, after almost a decade of sending monitors to classrooms across the state to check on teachers' articulation, recently made a sharp about-face on the issue.
But he did a sharp about-face yesterday, apparently under pressure from shareholders.
Cutting school aid in the middle of the school year, if it comes to pass, will represent an about-face from the sharp increases undertaken by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer to end years of court challenges by advocacy groups that contended that New York City schools were being shortchanged by Albany.
The voice had come from a man who, in the dim light, appeared to be thin, balding at the temples, with a sharp face furrowed by shifting wrinkles.
She had a sharp, angular face, a hooked nose and she had a strong chin.
In an astonishing about-face on Wednesday, the Dow swung more than 600 points and turned a sharp sell-off into huge gains.
Major market averages did an about-face yesterday after a sharp rise on Thursday.
I am talking about a sharp, intentional separation, from friendship to... not.
Mr. Zuma, 69, faces a sharp challenge from a faction that includes Julius Malema, the populist and controversial leader of the A.N.C. Youth League.
Sun's Japanese distributor, facing a sharp drop in revenues from those machines, is also selling Egenera.
