Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jack Valenti asks, "Who is smart enough to say what is permissible for a 13-year-old and not for a twelve-year-old?" The answer is: Those who are smart enough to decide that 16-year-olds can drive and 15-year-olds cannot, that 18-year-olds can vote and 17-year-olds cannot, that 21-year-olds can drink and 20-year-olds cannot...
...would not want a ten-year-old to see, advocated the creation of the new rating. The proposed change, however, has been opposed by M.P.A.A. President Jack Valenti. He argues that the current system is working well enough and that adding more classifications would cause more confusion. "Who is smart enough to say what is permissible for a 13-year-old and not for a twelve-year...
...another, we have all felt it. If it were a color, we would say it comes in a thousand shades, from vivid reds to somber browns. There is the quick, flashing smart of a ringer scorched by a flame or the grinding torment of the dentist's drill striking close to a nerve. We all know the dull throb of a stubbed toe that sends us hippity-hopping from foot to foot in search of distraction. And many have felt the pain that cuts deeper: the gut-clutching agony that we awaken to after surgery...
...Ph.D. program, we assume they're smart and have the ability to communicate," she says. "But there are a lot of very, very bright people here who don't necessarily have the innate skills to make themselves understood...
...students are very conscientious and smart. They really care about what they are doing," comments Jerome Kagan, professor of developmental psychology, who has two undergraduates working with infants in his lab at William James Hall...