Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than a year of frustrated efforts to free the Americans, some of its members privately voiced hindsight regrets. One high-level insider now thinks that an early show of military force, along the lines of the belated airborne assault that ended in tragic failure, might have been a smart tactic. But Carter still argues that a hasty plan, which could have ended in the death of some or all of the hostages, would have been far worse than the prolonged imprisonment. Nor does Carter subscribe to the argument of some that in effect the 52 lives have...
...Cocks, who wrote the main story, first met Lennon in 1976 through mutual friends. Over the years Cocks found him to be "extraordinarily smart, witty, angry and basically unknowable...
...personalities of his three secretaries than those first alarm clocks did: Judy (Jane Fonda) is square, Doralee (Dolly Parton) is frilly, Vi (Lily Tomlin) is sensible. Together, though, they are a Stenographic catastrophe; they'd lose the quick-brown-fox race to Charlie's Angels. Vi, "the smart one," thinks she has poisoned her insufferable boss; she hasn't. The three then kidnap a cadaver from the hospital, thinking they've got their boss in the car trunk; they haven't. The movie is just as absentmindedly schizophrenic. Nine to Five thinks...
...NOTEBOOK: Unsung honors for the day have to go to Dave Connors, Alan Litchfield and Tony Visone, all of whom played smart, aggressive games. Connors, Jay North, and David Burke skated well as a line, and should remain together... Crimson goalie Wade Lau played a fine game, stopping 20 shots and not letting anything by for the final 30 minutes. Lau continues to play better than his statistics indicate... Visone and Gaudet hail from the same home town, Saugus. Mr. Daniel Gaudet and his 15-year-old daughter made the trip to watch Bob...Good news from the doctor: forward...
...fortunate few stores, business has never been better. Demand is strong for almost any sort of electronic gadget, from programmable calculators to video games. Sales of computer-based "smart toys" like Simon, which uses increasingly complex patterns of flashing colors and sounds as a space-age update of the old Simon Says schoolyard game, are especially robust...