Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generation to coach as successfully in an era when football players use hair dryers in the locker room as he did when they wore crew cuts. "Thirty-five years makes a long time," he reflects. "A lot of good, a lot of bad, some things you did that were smart, some things you did that were plain stupid. Thirty-five years makes a lot of changes...
...World Airways eventually outbid Lorenzo with a $300 million offer, thereby allowing Texas International to sell its National shares for a $47 million pretax profit. Last year Lorenzo went after Trans World Airlines. Over breakfast at New York City's Carlyle Hotel, he told TWA Chairman L. Edwin Smart that he wanted to buy the troubled airline, which is ten times the size of the Texas upstart. The offer was quickly rebuffed...
Indeed, the PBS marketing scheme emphasizes its subscribers' "upscale" incomes. "If you could advertise on public TV, would you?" PBS asked readers of Advertising Age. "You can't, of course. But you can reach these smart, rich and rabid public-TV fans through a powerful new advertising medium, the Dial...
What our nation needs for President is a person with a New York mind, not only smart but witty and able to snap back at the world firmly, like Mayor Koch...
...scrummy" (scrumptious) scones and honing their Olympian disdain for anyone not of good family. The school is a microcosm of colonial society: the rich Anglified girls lording it over a poor Aussie with a quick wit. Laura doesn't fit: she is too thin and gawky, too smart and eager. In an attempt to see Laura's world through her eyes, Director Beresford turns the other girls into vaudeville minxes and betrays a weakness for the ingratiating visual cliché. But the film sparks to life when Laura falls in with-and into heroine-worshiping love with-Evelyn...