Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national barricades. It is the form of national defense without the substance. Its proponents recite a list of indictments against the volunteer army (which the Defense Department, characteristically, calls the "All Volunteer Force" or AVF): its recruiting techniques don't fill manpower quotas, its recruits aren't smart enough to fight a modern war, and the kids it brings in from the inner cities are more interested in getting high than in defending their homeland...
...handsome brochures in the mailboxes carry distinguished references, authoritative research and cite the CIA, Jimmy Carter and the Wall Street Journal. The pitch: buy spot oil futures contracts and, in six months, you too will be as rich as an Arab oil sheik. With only $6,000 down, the smart investor is promised OPEC-like profits...
...Kennedy is playing up the March 25 primaries in New York and Connecticut as the ones to watch. Franks says Kennedy's emphasis on New York as the first major test in a large Northern industrial state is a slight to the people of Illinois. But it may be smart politics. Carter lost New York the last time around, placing an embarrassing fourth behind Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), Rep. Morris K. Udall (D-Ariz.), and sundry uncommitteds. Once through Illinois and New York, campaign officials are sketchy on strategy...
...attention to details. Getting the facts is the key to good decision making. Every mistake that I made -and we all make mistakes-came because I didn't take the time, I didn't drive hard enough, I wasn't smart enough to get the facts. You can't get them all, of course, but the last 5% or 10% of the facts may not really matter...
...think the guys will give up," Carter said. "They realize we played a good game, and that for periods at a time we can play great. They're smart enough to realize...