Word: brainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, the sign of a first-rate intellect is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind and still function, then President Clinton is as smart as he wants to be, which unfortunately is not smart enough to know better. For him, fund raising is a no-brainer...
...decision, in retrospect, was a no-brainer--made easier for NBC by the fact that it had two sister cable channels, MSNBC and CNBC, continuing the O.J. stakeout in Santa Monica, California. But the decision had particular resonance for NBC. The network's evening newscast has faced similar--if less momentous--choices night after night for the past several months, and has come down, more often than not, on the opposite side: bypassing or downplaying traditional Washington stories in favor of news, trends and features from the heartland--plus a liberal dose of O.J. The strategy has worked...
Think about it. For all the references to thinking--I don't think so, no-brainer, clueless, all the brain surgeons and rocket scientists you don't have to be, and the injunction on some New York City street signs, "Don't even think of parking here"--isn't the real message of these phrases simply, Don't even think...
...colored" rest rooms. Whether that was the result of enlightened company policy or fortunate happenstance, I don't know, and neither do the Exxon representatives I asked about it last week. But that gesture to its black customers made me a lifelong supporter. So it's a no-brainer for me to help Jesse Jackson and other black leaders keep the pressure on Texaco by boycotting the chain while they negotiate concessions that go even further than last Friday's extraordinary settlement of a bitter discrimination suit...
...about "freedom of the press." The administration's actions smack of nothing less than censorship. The administration should not meddle with legal, non-academic-related conflicts, should not be able to censor what is printed on campus and should lighten up. Yes, the "Prank Files" is a sophomoric, no-brainer column that pokes fun at institutions supported by the administration, but no, the administration should not be able to overrule free speech on campus...