Gopperth and Sharp traded further penalties as Bedford took an 18-17 advantage into the break.
Furthermore, it is important to consider the policy maker's objectives when designing predictive models and setting related thresholds since there is a sharp trade-off between correctly calling crises and false alarms.
Which is why every bank from the staid Swiss to the sharp trading houses on Wall Street got caught up in the subprime debacle.
From a strategic standpoint, PowerRatings traders are more or less in the same position: waiting for stocks and ETFs to reach the sort of overbought or oversold extremes from which our sharpest trading edges emerge.
Dr. Mahathir's sharp-tongued trade minister, Rafidah Aziz, who once called Vice President Al Gore "disgusting" for his support of pro-democracy protesters in Kuala Lumpur, couldn't resist inserting the needle.
They include a sharp reduction in trade barriers and increased protection for United States investment and intellectual property rights.
Arrayed on her work space were the instruments of her trade: sharp picks and iron files and pointy snippers.
"The sharp deterioration in trade shaves a bit from the outlook for growth in the first quarter," said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial.
But the global financial crisis led to a sharp fall of trade last year, according to the Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations, an organization of German business representatives.
A sharp contraction of trade in the Byzantine Empire was exacerbated by wild overspending by Venice, the medieval equivalent of a European central bank.
All these reverses led to economic depression and a sharp interruption of trade for the cities on the coast and in the south and caused a redirection of commerce toward the Adriatic harbour of Spina.
