Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have meant to revive the old Hitchcock tradition of sophisticated comedy. But so frail a genre is more style than substance, and Siegel's trooper-boot direction flattens out the laugh lines and bits of business until they have all the charm of an airport runway. Gelbart was smart enough to remove his name from the credits (hence the screenwriter pseudonym). Reynolds was not so lucky...
...time to set, and stick to, basic goals," Vance declared. "Neither we nor the world can afford an American foreign policy that is hostage to the emotions of the moment . . . It is far too easy, in an election year, to let what may seem smart politics produce bad policies...
Janowitz: We want more recruits from the higher intelligence categories. We cannot run the Army without a significant number of them, if for no other reason than because some 40% of our officer corps is recruited from enlisted men. We want people who are smart, not just average. Moreover, those in the higher aptitude categories make those in the lower perform better...
...foreign challenge traces back to the 1973-75 recession, when orders for circuits plunged and the industry reacted by slashing capital spending in new plants and equipment by 52%. During 1979, however, demand for the chips surged as toymakers and electronics companies incorporated them into TV computer games and "smart toys" for tots. But domestic producers such as Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and Texas Instruments were unable to fill the orders. Japanese manufacturers quickly filled...
...Princess would have it, the titled women of Araby are giggly nitwits whose chief interests are TV, pop music and illicit sex. In one episode, an actress playing a Saudi boutique owner confides that many smart Saudi women come to such shops for assignations. In one lurid segment, royal ladies are shown cruising a desert lovers' lane in chauffeur-driven limousines in search of casual amours. In fact, people familiar with Saudi Arabia assert that there are no such pick-up strips outside Jeddah or Riyadh, and that the whole picture of royal carnality in the film...