Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time, oil companies' investments outside of natural minerals have often been bummers. Exxon has reportedly lost heavily on its venture into office equipment, and Mobil has been forced to pump millions into the Montgomery Ward retail chain that it bought in 1976. Moreover, natural resources look like a smart investment. President Reagan's pledge to increase defense spending should increase the demand for strategic materials. The stocks of many mining companies are currently depressed and thus are a good...
...summer, don't be too dismayed. It's easier to find books in Widener, you have plenty of time to walk along the river, and there is a noticeable and general relaxation. People don't rush by you in the streets pushing and shoving irritably, mainly because they're smart enough to stay inside where it's air-conditioned...
What Coward did for the bright Weary of It All worldlings of London, Ellington did for the smart, sassy Take the "A " Train Harlem-Manhattan axis. This mood resonates throughout the show, particularly in Set Designer Tony Walton's scenic imagination. He inscribes the Cotton Club in neon across the night sky rather as Picasso painted with a flashlight in the dark. Through dark blue and white lighting, a flight of stairs becomes a piano keyboard to prance...
...Adolph Rupp couldn't have handled the Cats better, getting some five minutes out of Sam Bowie with four fouls, and when Bowie finally fouled out, sending Mel Turpin in to do the job. It chokes you up to see how street-smart and worldly-wise the guy is. They say he coached a truly perfect game when Kentucky knocked LSU off just before the tournament...
...although considerably taller than Sands, failed to control the game from the net. Sands' passing shots and drives aimed at his feet thwarted his early shots. "He's a smart player," said an exhausted...