Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made it clear he wouldn't move unless he had some connection with the Psychology Department, and he was a good enough social psychologist that we'd do it," White said. "The B-School was generous enough to fund it, and we were smart enough not to look a gift horse in the mouth...
...seriously-folks, the best thing about The Cube is the company Dolby keeps, not his natty nuttiness. The funk on this song is slow and smooth, like honey over gravel, eased by Clinton sidemen Dennis Chambers and Rodney Curtis, spiced by the Brecker Brothers' smart horn playing, and sassy, improvised background vocals by Lene Lovitch and George Clinton...
...superiors in the diplomatic corps (John Gielgud and Ian McKellen)--have delicious verbal turns of their own. Among its other virtues, Plenty is the year's funniest film, to those with a taste for English mandarin scorn: the word unspoken, the sneer barely repressed, euphemism as an act of smart-club malice...
Business correspondence should be simple and brief, Baldrige declares. She proudly reports that soon after her brother, Malcolm Baldrige, became Secretary of Commerce in 1981, he programmed the department's word processors to reject such business jargon as "to prioritize," "bottom line" and "impact" used as a verb. The smart business executive meticulously manages what may seem to be minor concerns. Writes Baldrige: "Details linked together create a strong, effective executive presence that propels an individual upward in his or her career...
...that would be used to blast attacking missiles and warheads out of the sky. TRW, Lockheed and Rockwell are studying the feasibility of so-called directed energy weapons, including lasers and particle beams. Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas and Teledyne are considering how conventional rockets and other projectiles, informally known as "smart rocks," might be used to knock down ICBMs. Finally, Star Wars will require an ultrapowerful new computer system to manage the missile defense. Among the leaders in this area of research are IBM, Rockwell...