Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Defense Department is working on guidelines designed to prevent unauthorized use of multi-access computers used by military contractors. "Computer audits," in which certain uses of the computer are carefully monitored, and computer ID cards are also growing in popularity. Such measures make computer crime more difficult, but then smart crooks usually have a way of escalating their skills right along with the law. For one thing, says Parker, they can enroll in one of the computer courses now offered as vocational rehabilitation in many U.S. prisons...
...quite the same as in most cities. Then one gradually notices that the driver of the black Mercedes is a beautiful Laotian girl wearing the traditional skirt of glossy silk, heavily embroidered in gold, and that the driver in the Jeep behind her, wearing a pair of smart Levi's, is also a girl. Then one realizes that there are far more women drivers than one would normally see-except, that is, in a small country that is losing 500 to 600 soldiers a month, killed, wounded or missing in action...
...which lie outside are usually dreary places, full of people governed by lethargy, and occasionally swayed by social currents. Updike's narrative voice is full of emotion in these stories, but that emotion is joyous or pathetic according to the turn of an incident. Because he is a good smart boy, the youngster Updike depicts the town where his teacher father works, while painfully acceding to his mother's wish that he aim to fly beyond it. The tension comes from the boy's guilt-ridden love for his town, and his need to assert his identity and grow both...
...while still young, had paid his dues as a member of SNCC in the early 1960's. And whites could listen to him because he projected himself as less caustic, somehow more "reasonable," than other black leaders. No doubt about it, I thought, this Julian Bond is one smart cookie...
...Second Vatican Council where a Wednesday night novena can snarl traffic for miles around. The ramshackle old houses in the central city still contrast as sharply as ever with the gleaming villas in the new suburb of Makati, where private security guards carrying carbines patrol outside the smart shops. One notable change, though, is the whitewashed cleanliness of city walls that once were covered with revolutionary slogans and anti-Marcos graffiti. They were washed clean by ROTC students after Marcos shut down the universities. Now that colleges have reopened, the students are obliged to spend their weekends cleaning up vacant...