Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...institution of intelligence today. Harvard has achieved this staggering degree of grandeur due to the efforts of the students and the administration to control the quality of what is taught here. We won't settle for second-rate. We will only permit that which is good, that which is smart...
...dumb people do come here, we generously instruct them. The smartest Harvard students and professors rally to the cause. With clever phrases and melodious hymns we gracefully expose their abysmal dumbness and assert our intellectual primacy. In this way either we gently persuade them and borderline students into being smart or we succeed in keeping them and their dumb ideas away...
...Provost John Deutch said that he made the decision not to buy a supercomputer, which would cost about $10 million spread out over five years, after he received a letter from Acting Secretary of Commerce Bruce Smart that expressed concern over Japanese bidding practices...
...letter, Smart explained that the federal government was concerned that in an effort to penetrate the U.S, supercomputer market, Japanese companies might try to sell the computer below production cost. If that were to occur, American companies, who would not sell at below cost, would not be able to furnish a supercomputer at a competitive price...
...Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But, more important, you've got to play with your heart...If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of heart, he's never going to come off of the field second."--Vince Lombardi...