Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Papp 5 (Smart, Bergin...
...season at Tennessee, breaking the hearts of general managers throughout the NFL where he was the sure first pick in the upcoming draft. In a league where teams for the most part rise and fall on the success of their quarterback, Manning is a rare find--a tall, strong, smart player who holds just about ever Tennessee passing record there is. He also has genetics on his side -- he's the son of former pro star Archie Manning. Peyton said he had planned to stay in school until Bill Parcels came on as coach of the Jets, a move that...
...quite literally so for the hero of Donnie Brasco, Mike Newell's smart, suspenseful and neo-Scorsesian study of lowlife Mob life. Based on a true story, the film takes its title from the alias chosen by an undercover FBI man named Joe Pistone when he penetrated a New York Mafia family in the 1970s. He lived this lie for six years, knowing that one miscue, one bad line reading could be his death warrant. Then he spent twice that time testifying against men with whom he had developed certain dubious collegial bonds. Today Pistone, who emerged lately...
...WHERE ARE YOU? Smart highway systems such as automated toll-collection devices hold the promise of smoothing out traffic jams, eliminating toll booths and cutting costs. But the same equipment that permits the automatic billing of a passing car can be used to register a motorist's whereabouts...
Consulting seems to be eating up an more and more Harvard grads each year as increasing numbers of students seek employment with the innumerable firms (all coincidentally based either in Cambridge or New York City) that come to lure them from the professions each fall. These firms need smart (credentialed) people (fresh meat) to provide (spout) that special skill (ability to bullshit) of symbolic analysis (ability to bullshit well...