Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...College students are smart enough to look at a price at a campus bookstore and a Web site," said Kuhn...
...that, by his 44th birthday, has grown into the most valuable company in the world. His success ensures that the U.S. is in the forefront of a global technological revolution, and he produces a product admired and used by millions. His reward for living the American Dream? Some smart Washington lawyers try to brand him a lawbreaker...
...high-tech needs smart antitrust enforcement, that raises an even trickier question: Is the American legal system up to it? The wheels of justice have always ground slowly--and even today the courts have more in common with Dickens' Bleak House than with the World Wide Web. By the lightning-paced standards of the computer industry, the law is positively glacial. After Jackson is done with the case, the appeals could drag on for two more years. That's a lifetime in Silicon Valley...
What's the draw? Simple, painstakingly hewn, often monochromatic pieces that remain constant from one season to the next. "I don't think customers have to be walking billboards for me," she says. As for her clientele, they are "smart girls or really skinny guys." Adeli, 33, was born in Iran and tagged along with her mother to the family tailor to watch him stitch clothes out of fine European textiles. Now living in New York City, she looks for ideas in flea markets or thrift stores, a sketch pad always handy. "I can walk around the city and still...
They slapped me around in the beginning. I wasn't a "good boy," but as time went on, I learned it didn't pay to be a smart aleck. There were mock trials. I said, "I will not answer any of your questions." The next day they marched me to a large hall. They said, "Here is a piece of paper. If you don't answer these questions by the count of 10, we'll shoot you." They put a gun to my head and started counting...