Cable and Wireless HKT has had to contend with competition for years -- a challenge that he said had sharpened that company's management.
In a rare face-to-face interview about his son's presidential campaign, former President George Bush said today that Gov. George W. Bush of Texas would emerge victorious in November largely because American voters periodically craved change, and because President Clinton's conduct in office had sharpened that appetite.
A6 World Briefing A8 NATIONAL A9-12, 16 Senior Bush Predicts History Will Favor His Son Former President George Bush, in a rare face-to-face interview about his son's presidential campaign, said Gov. George W. Bush would emerge victorious in November largely because American voters periodically craved change, and because President Clinton's conduct in office had sharpened that appetite.
But the economic crisis has sharpened that focus, as financially struggling states cut aid to higher education.
In recent months concerns have sharpened in equity and credit markets that Europe's debt troubles could worsen, affecting the health of the global economy.
Hadid's experiences as a woman and a native of the Middle East have sharpened her insights into that phenomenon.
Mda's gregarious and transfixing memoir, "Sometimes There Is a Void," chronicles the upheavals that have sharpened his skills as a wide-ranging social observer.
The congress comes amid economic problems that have sharpened a debate over the pace of changes in a country with high growth but with underlying problems of undeveloped infrastructure, a maze of bureaucracy, corruption and a poorly qualified work force.
In recent weeks, most Democratic candidates have sharpened their arguments, contending that Mr. Bush's with-us-or-against-us approach -- an approach embodied in the "National Security Strategy of the United States" that Ms. Rice drafted -- has made the United States more vulnerable and alienated allies.
Sometimes, his debts to jammy jazz-fusion went on a little long, and some concision in the writing and playing would have sharpened the emotional fangs that these songs have at their core.
