Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talking heads and newspaper smart-guys love having something to talk and write about between the even-year Presidential and Congressional elections. After all, is it just a coincidence that the three major odd-year elections --the mayoral contest in New York and the gubernatorial contests in New Jersey and Virginia--all occur in the backyards of the major national media hubs of Washington and New York...
...interest groups." We must be grateful for the rude health and increasing diversity of popular culture, which is both more accountable to the public and less so to social engineers of any stripe. American Canvas repeatedly points out the obvious, that pop is slave instead to "the marketplace." A smart aleck could point out that "the marketplace" here seems to be a pejorative for "an audience...
...uneasily atop a story in which Robert, a sweet, dim maintenance man (a woofly Ewan McGregor), replaced by a robot, decides to revenge himself on his rich, cruel boss (Ian Holm) by kidnapping the boss's daughter Celine (a sleek Cameron Diaz). She, naturally, turns out to be spoiled, smart, willful and eager to collaborate in ripping off Daddy...
Your article on the cashless society and cash cards that can electronically store money was incomplete [BUSINESS, Oct. 13]. You should have noted that personal privacy and security are compromised and that banks stand to benefit most. The smart cards provide precise information as to the purchases made, which is tantamount to surveillance. DAVID MEURER Toronto...
...very near future the world is divided into the genetic haves and have-nots. The former are designed in labs prior to conception; with a twist on this DNA strand, a tug on that one, they come out smart, handsome and spared even such minor inconveniences as lefthandedness. The have-nots, products of their parents' taking a romantic free fall into the gene pool, are condemned to hard labor in support of their superiors. They are also burdened with flightier emotions...