Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would say that the credit for that belongs with the coalition," Williams said. "Tim is a smart enough negotiator to realize when he's dealing with a strong union, or strong unions...
That doesn't necessarily mean the theory is correct, of course. As Einstein's example makes clear, very smart people sometimes tilt at windmills. And even in the case of his greatest success, the General Theory of Relativity, Einstein had to wait patiently for experimentalists to go out and verify its predictions. Until they did, the theory was simply a set of clever equations. The same holds true today for superstring theory; unfortunately, it would take an atom smasher thousands of times as powerful as any on Earth to test it directly--at least in its current version...
...last week were named co-directors of policy planning. Previously, what policy planning there had been was run out of Dole's back pocket, and that was plainly not working. Rumsfeld, a former White House chief of staff and Secretary of Defense, is regarded as a tough and smart operator, but some party veterans consider him to lack a sure instinct for what will win votes. They hope that deficiency will be compensated for by the appointment of Weber, a former six-term Congressman from Minnesota who is considered one of the G.O.P.'s sharpest minds...
...message that goes beyond romance. This music "speaks to what jazz is all about," says Roberts. "It helps musicians to see an attitude of affirmation and acceptance, never losing the ability to fight toward a higher level of understanding and engagement in public life." On both of his smart new albums, Roberts takes listeners to that higher level. And always with soul...
...sign of a good idea is that you think it's been done before. But in Kennedy & Nixon (Simon & Schuster; 377 pages; $25), author Christopher Matthews, a newspaper columnist and television pundit, places a frame around these epic 20th century figures for the first time, revealing in this smart, well-researched, readable book that the two cold warriors had more in common than one may suspect. Matthews' thesis is that both Kennedy and Nixon secretly despised the Establishment--Nixon because he felt excluded from it, Kennedy because he felt above it. Most of all they were united by their ambition...