Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plump and pleasant Janine Piesset and her husband, a plumber, live in a tiny red brick house in a pleasant corner of Roubaix (pop. 98,834). Until recently, their home was a happy one, and its brightest adornment a smart, pretty girl going on seven, whom they call Viviane...
Many a thriving business was born of smart shopping for surplus goods after World War II. But nothing beat the big buy that created Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., whose backers (including Houston Contractors George and Herman Brown) raised $143 million in 1947 to buy the Government's war-built 2,819-mile Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines. Out of an original investment on their part of only $150,000 in stock, they parlayed the Texas-to-East Coast oil lines into one of the U.S.'s big four natural-gas carriers, a giant worth $581 million...
...prince was miffed at certain smart-alecky, democratic customs now prevalent in Vientiane (including the fact that the kowtow is going out of fashion) and was also upset, he said, to see that his brothers, Souvanna Phouma and Souphanouvong, were not settling their difficulties...
Starting with a basic provision in the tax law of 1954, which allows any taxpayer to donate up to 30% of his income to certain charities and count the gift as a tax deduction, smart tax lawyers have refined an endless series of methods to help clients reduce tax payments, or in some cases even make money. Texas oilmen and other mineral producers can donate part of their future production to charity, deduct both the expected income and the total value of the gift (since reserves are also being depleted) from their taxes. This "double deduction'' enables...
...From his smart showrooms appropriately located on the edge of Beverly Hills, Lowitz supplies paintings in any shape, size, color, subject, style or quantity. Last year he sold about 40,000, mostly to hotels, and this year business is even brisker. In a recent typical week he sold 1,166 paintings to a Hollywood studio, a cluster of hotels, a golf club and a Los Angeles eating place called Coffee Dan's; fortnight ago he got an order from San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel for 3,564 paintings (all "very modern," mostly abstract); last week he sold...