Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Governor James Hunt hopes that by adding hard science to his arguments, he will strengthen his position when battling for increases in Smart Start funding. "This is revolutionary information," he says of studies demonstrating the sensitivity of babies' brains in the first years of life. "Now that we can measure it and prove it, and if it can be made known widely so people understand this, then they'll understand why their schools aren't going to work for them, their technical training isn't going to work, other things we do later on aren't going to work fully...
Graham made many smart moves as well. She saw that the Post needed to be improved editorially and hired the right man, Ben Bradlee, to do it. (The meeting in which she put out the first feelers to him was the first time she had ever taken a man to lunch.) She gave the crucial go-ahead to publish the Pentagon Papers, after a federal judge had halted publication of them in the New York Times. And, of course, she stood tall during the paper's groundbreaking Watergate coverage, backing her reporters in the face of enormous pressure from...
America has a hero in Bill Gates. He's everything we all want to be--smart, creative, dedicated, energetic. So what if he wants to win and be the best? His achieving the best has made a more interesting world for all of us, and he's still on his journey of life. My bet is that in the end he'll have social graces and a spiritual outlook as well. SHARON MIRTAHERI Germantown, Maryland...
...just beginning to develop a personality." He doesn't have the courtesy to offer a guest a soft drink when he serves himself, leaves his wife for an annual weekend with his former girlfriend and is loud in restaurants. With cold arrogance, Gates incorrectly equates intelligence with being smart, and being smart with being good. Your portrayal actually exposes America's biggest money winner as a loser. DANIEL MELCON Norwich, Vermont...
Gates appears to be smart in an extremely narrow way, but he doesn't sound like someone I'd go down the block to have lunch with. And he's apparently devoid of social graces and common sense. You seem to be fascinated with this guy because he's rich, but Gates has never had an original thought in his life. The thought of this guy's gaining control of cyberspace and guiding the development of computers in the future is chilling to contemplate. BOB RUST Thousand Oaks, California...