Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...s.o.b.s are making an impact, because it's such a competitive field. But I am not one to throw stones at Rubbia. We fought a lot, but what's important is that a competent team made an important discovery." Taubes does not disagree. "Rubbia is a very smart man," he told TIME. "In a field in which the ability to raise hundreds of millions of dollars and win over governments has become at least as important as doing a rigorous analysis, he thoroughly deserved the Nobel...
...European trade drama wore on, U.S. negotiators in Tokyo were engaged in yet another hammer-and-tongs trade session. A team led by Commerce Department Under Secretary Bruce Smart and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Michael Smith was trying to pry open Japanese markets for U.S. companies in a number of sensitive sectors, including supercomputers, semiconductors and civil-engineering services. After four days of talks Smart described the results as "mixed." Smith hinted that April 1 might be the deadline for another sharp confrontation with Japan, which last year enjoyed a $58.6 billion trade surplus with...
...scripts that bear his name -- Midnight Express, Scarface, Year of the Dragon and 8 Million Ways to Die -- cataloged the seductive evils of the drug trade. Stone's third feature as writer-director (after Seizure and, in 1981, The Hand) laced his usual hip rants on pharmacology with a smart, anguished newsphoto montage of one more Third World nation torn by civil war and shadowed by the looming hulk of American weaponry. This was the gallivanting political melodrama Salvador. Stone dedicated the film to his recently deceased father. "I remember one conversation we had right before he died. He said...
...said one Reagan aide. But the tactic could backfire if the two rogue former NSC staffers, who have so far kept silent, decide to start talking. "So we're throwing Ollie over the side?" mused a White House official after watching the week's events. "That's not very smart...
...agree. One of Wall Street's hottest gurus, Georgia-based Robert Prechter, has used an arcane branch of analysis known as Elliott Wave Theory to predict that the Dow is on a march that will peak at 3600 by 1988. In December 1985, Yale Hirsch, editor of the newsletter Smart Money, forecast the date of the Dow's 2000 day within roughly a week. Now Hirsch predicts that the index may climb to 2300 within three months and reach 2700 later this year...