Holiday sales have historically propelled computer companies and chip makers to a strong fourth quarter, but this year Intel joined Gateway, Apple Computer and Hewlett-Packard in acknowledging sharp slowdowns in PC sales.
The parent who might do this is forced, however briefly, to acknowledge the sharp otherness of a child's existence, made to realise what Andrei understands when he sees the girls running "merrily and quickly" to fill their skirts with plums: "the existence of other human interests, totally foreign to him and as legitimate as those that concerned him".
He went on to become the United States solicitor general, the administration's top lawyer, and his victory now threatens to cut into the federal budget just as the government is being forced to acknowledge a sharp decline in the projected surplus.
Alternately frustrated, assertive and resigned, he acknowledged the sharp political skills of opponents who have waged a campaign to derail the new media ownership rules, which have become the most important regulations of Mr. Powell's tenure.
"Is it going to be a problem, or will they stand on the sidelines?" Senior politicians and diplomats said in interviews this week that Russian objectives in Iraq, Iran and North Korea did not necessarily contradict American ones, even though they acknowledged that sharp differences remained over many issues and tactics.
While acknowledging the sharp right-turn executed by the Bush administration, I emphasized the continuity of unilateralism in U.S. foreign policy.
HAMPTON, N.H. — Rudolph W. Giuliani has entered a turbulent period in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, marked by what his aides acknowledge are missteps, sharp shifts in strategy and evidence that reports about his personal life have hurt his national standing.
But, acknowledging the recent sharp decline, he added, "It's not for the faint of heart".
Of their immediate future, Sharp acknowledges that both "need to start winning" if Europe is to remain a realistic aim.
Yet he acknowledged that a sharp increase in insurance costs could strain his finances and make it hard ever to sell the property.
