Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign, she challenged him to "come out and fight like a man." Whitmire says she is content running the nation's fourth largest city and has no vice-presidential ambitions. Says Texas Democratic Chairman Robert Slagle: "She's a darn good mayor, a very impressive woman and smart as a whip. But I think people are going to be a little bit reluctant to buy the idea that you can jump from mayor to the vice presidency or presidency...
...Smart Women, Blume...
...quest is for coolness. After a year of cultural and emotional R. and R. in Montana, former Magazine Writer Kelly Martin returns to the heat of a New York City summer resolved to find happiness by achieving a perfect balance between being "loving and acid-smart." Instead, she meets the laconic Jennings, whose last name is never mentioned, and returns to her favorite indoor sport: power tripping...
FICTION 1. The Aquitaine Progression, Ludlum (1 last week) 2. The Haj, Uris (2) 3. Heretics of Dune, Herbert (3) 4. The Butter Battle Book, Seuss (4) 5. Warday, Strieberand Kunetka (5) 6. Pet Sematary, King (6) 7. Descent from Xanadu, Robbins (7) 8. Fling, Beck and Massman 9. Smart Women, Blume (9) 10. The Danger, Francis...
...join the Army and Army Reserve, more than half again as many as his quota. "No," he corrects with deadpan good humor, "we don't have quotas. We have missions." Over four years, he figures, he has signed up enough people to fill an infantry company. A smart company too: five of Yasenak's privates were college graduates, and his recruits tend to score better on their military entrance exams than the Army demands. But his new medal and his prize, a week for two in Hawaii, are not simply rewards for high body counts. After all, recruiters...