Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company's shareholders are now in Europe, though the largest stake is controlled from Kuwait. Another concern is contract negotiations this summer with an increasingly feisty United Auto Workers union. In Europe the economy still trails Schrempp's ambitious expectations, and so do sales of the Smart, a clever but perhaps fatally flawed experiment in making a Mercedes for the masses...
Sophomore high jump standout Dora Gyorffy has already qualified for NCAA competition, along with sophomore Chris Clever in the javelin...
Sophomore high jump standout Dora Gyorffy has already qualified for NCAA competition, along with sophomore Chris Clever in the javelin...
...inherent vanity in artistic expression as well. The photograph is also a display of Norfleet's artistic ingenuity, as it integrates both the insect and its mirror image seamlessly. Later in the book, "Of Course We Prayed" presents a similar commentary, as Norfleet uses praying mantises as a clever pun on her perception of the spirituality in America today...
Norfleet gives us some clue as to her position as she writes, "My insects became the survivors in a barren world as they played out history." So maybe Norfleet left the last photograph untitled as a segueway into the future, in another clever pun. After all, ugly as they may be, bugs are the oldest things around...