Word: outsmart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biting and volatile temper, lashing out at bungling subordinates and proving to be always a step ahead of the rest. With him and Caine back together on the screen again, the movie could have evolved into an action packed version of Sleuth, with two spies par excellance trying to outsmart one another...
...didn't outsmart them, we just ran right at 'em," Vignali said. "I definitely don't mind carrying the ball that many times...
...name. But Sloan contends the real blame lies with the values taught at the Harvard Business School, which awarded M.B.A.s to both Agee (1963) and Cunningham (1979). Sloan writes that the graduate school "does not teach how to build and operate a better mouse trap. It teaches how to outsmart, to beat out the other...
...Chicago Truant Officer Walter Bryant: "If we raise a district's attendance by nine students a day, we can pay for the machine in less than a year." Bryant believes that the computers can only supplement, not replace, regular truant officers. Officials still must track down children who outsmart the machines by giving out phony home phone numbers or answering the phone themselves...
...problem, as Spielberg sees it, is the ambition for megabucks: "Everybody is aiming for the rightfield stands." But hatching a blockbuster may be the only way for a film maker to outsmart the deal makers running the big studios. Spielberg and Director Brian De Palma (Carrie, Dressed to Kill) recently haggled with two major studios over the rights to Michael Crichton's bestselling novel Congo. "A deal is a work of science fiction," Spielberg says. "I wasted three months learning how not to make one. Eventually, Brian and I walked away. The whole 'movie game' is just...