Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...form, like a sonnet. It is not as defined as a sonnet. Still one looks for things to be said in letters that are not said elsewhere, expecting truth most of all. Even falsity in letters divulges a kind of truth-the false wit employed in writing to a clever enemy, the false cheer to a dull friend, the false authority to children, the false self-confidence to colleagues. Letters conceal almost nothing, which accounts for their power. Those few who have done them well ought never have been told: Don't write any letters...
Coyotes are small (about 30 lbs.), fast, clever and notably fond of mutton chops. For years U.S. sheepmen have trapped them, shot them from airplanes, and laid out wholesale poisons. But in 1972 the Nixon Administration banned the use of poison on federal grazing lands because it kills more than just coyotes. The scattered chemicals-usually a nerve drug called Compound 1080-also felled birds, including endangered species like the bald eagle, not to mention foxes, badgers, opossums, raccoons and pet dogs...
...broad voter support and is widely seen as inflationary. That view is especially virulent on Wall Street, where concern over inflation and high interest rates has rocked the bond and stock markets in the past few weeks. As a result of that skepticism, says one White House aide, "a clever overall strategy" will be needed if the President is to have his way on taxes. That may include a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign, financed in part by the Republican National Committee, to drum up support in conservative congressional districts. The strategy will almost certainly also involve an accommodation...
...what a clever idea for a novel. In Zuckerman Unbound, a sequel to The Ghost Writer, Newark-born Nathan Zuckerman has made a million dollars with Carnovsky, an ethnic and sexual extravaganza that resembles Portnoy's Complaint. Zuckerman's problem is not sex but a reluctance to indulge in the conventional rewards of his money and fame. Says André Schevitz, his agent: "First you lock yourself away in order to stir up your imagination, now you lock yourself away because you've stirred up theirs...
...California, Correspondent Diane Coutu interviewed M.B.A.s at Stanford and the University of California at Los Angeles and Berkeley and found that today's business students are perhaps better rounded than their predecessors. Observes Coutu: "Though some M.B.A.s are clearly clever, brilliant was not the word that most often came to mind. These are achievers, people who worked hard in college to earn the chance to work harder in business school." Reporter-Researcher Denise Worrell interviewed business school deans at Dartmouth and Cornell and spoke with Wall Street executives, while Correspondent Patricia Delaney visited the University of Chicago and Northwestern...