Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lynch-mob movie for laughs -- laughs that are meant to catch in the back of your throat, like movie-house popcorn that turns out to be all kernels. One of the new neighbors is described as "about a nine on the tension scale." And so is this smart, crafty, off-putting movie...
...federal workers' cost of living increases. The remaining $10 billion in reductions disappear into what Senate Budget Committee chairman James Sasser called the "black box" of the budget. Asked about this timorous lack of specific recommendations, a senior White House aide said with a chuckle, "We're too smart for that. There's no law that says you have to define cuts and throw out red flags...
...Wrong," says Baker. "The thing is getting them in. They're smart as hell. Their eyesight and hearing are incredible, about ten times better than a human's. The trick is in getting them where you want them, on your terms. Then you control the situation, not them. You have the options. Pull the trigger or don't. It doesn't matter once you've got them where you want them. The important thing is knowing that it's in your hands, that you can do whatever you determine is in your interest to do. I don't know, though...
Which leaves 1996. "That could work," says Strauss. "Look, obviously being President is on his mind. He's that smart and that shrewd and that ambitious. He knows there's really only one job in Washington worth having...
...riot act again," says Roger Ailes, Bush's media adviser. "That was one of the few times I've ever seen him blow up. He said, 'You call him yourselves. You're not the ones who have to carry that message and have him say, 'If you're so smart, Jimmy, how come I'm the one who's Vice President...