Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quintessential New Yorker: street smart, loud, witty, full of life, always in motion, combative. "Feisty," corrects Mayor Edward Koch. "Combative has a pejorative quality...
Often described as "gutsy" and "street smart" by fellow diplomats, onetime School Teacher Pez zullo is judged to be particularly effective in developing personal ties with Nicaragua's revolutionary Sandinista rulers at a time when nation-to-nation bonds are anything but happy. Relations between Washington and Managua were especially sticky during congressional stalling on the $75 million aid package. By the time it was approved, the Sandinistas were no longer grateful, to say the least. Pezzullo, who had fought hard for the aid's passage, managed to minimize the political damage...
...fifth man tapped for the Oxy-Pete presidency in the past decade by Hammer, who after 23 years at Occidental shows no signs of wanting to yield real authority to any possible successor. Said Hammer of his latest No. 2: "He's a brilliant banker and a smart businessman. He's very loyal and a man of great modesty. I like that." Abboud himself has no illusions about his chances for promotion. Says he: "Dr. Hammer will be with us a very long time. My job is to do whatever the doctor wants done. He is as youthful...
...audience: they spend most of the film watching and listening to the lovely sights and sounds that Spielberg and his special-effects team have put together. Spielberg in effect is the alien who steps from the mother ship at the end of the film. He is shy and cute, smart and wise. He smiles and waves...
Noon Lunch with your folks, if they're still here. You got into Harvard, so you should have been smart enough to have them treat you to a meal at a good restaurant last night. So too, tonight. Have a reunion dinner with the 1600 freshmen and their parents at Locke-Ober's tonight; last night you saw them all at Anthony's Pier 4. Today at lunch is the time to inform your parents that their deadline for departure is right after dinner--otherwise, you'll lose 0.1 on your GPA, as you were told by some high authority...