Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They blocked really well," Tapson said. "We weren't playing smart. We let them intimidate us. They are big girls, husky girls...
Heading home, the seminar students look retooled, retuned, relaxed. Their arms enfold three-ring binders full of freshly surfaced data. They are carrying copies of The Pinstripe Gourmet, or Think Smart, Move Fast, or even How to Make It Big as a Consultant. At the airport newsstand a magazine cover line catches the eye: MANAGEMENT SECRETS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. Now there was a role model for the ages, a boss who could communicate in the "I win, you lose" mode and get away with it. A guy who conquered Iran, no less...
...transformation into a feminist came after she posed as a secretary for a typewriter ad with the tag line, as Hite recalls, "The typewriter is so smart she doesn't have to be." On impulse, Hite joined ranks with members of the National Organization for Women who were protesting the ad. In 1971 Hite read a pamphlet in the NOW office, The Myth of Female Orgasm, and decided to create a questionnaire on the issue for a NOW-sponsored "speak-up." As she read the women's responses about their sexuality, "a whole picture of the universe began to fall...
...Smart decision...
...units down to the platoon level to use briefcase-size sensors in plotting their own locations within a few yards. Cruise missiles travel to their targets guided by digital mapping and targeting information transmitted from satellites. The U.S. is on the verge of installing satellite-oriented targeting systems in "smart" artillery shells and short-range missiles...