Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...business should do if its products were found to be unsafe for the environment and were banned in America. Most immediately responded that the company should try to take it business abroad where environmental standards were looser or nonexistent, and the teaching fellow agreed that this was a smart recommendation. Is it any wonder that some American companies still use dangerous pesticides such as DDT in Latin America...
Wall Street, of course, is far less sentimental about historic New England factories. "Wachner's decision to get out of the men's shirt business was smart and inevitable," says Faye Landes, a clothing analyst at Smith Barney. The news was hailed as continuing evidence of Wachner's devotion to the bottom line and her goal of transforming Warnaco into what she has called the "Coca-Cola of the bra business...
...kill an American politician but good news for a candidate fighting to make a two-man run-off. "In January," says a Yeltsin aide, "the focus groups were awful. Four of the five top adjectives used to describe the President were 'drunk,' 'unhealthy,' 'can't be trusted' and 'not smart.' The only positive was 'experience.' Now only 'not smart' persists, and we can't change that." (Yes, Russian campaigns now use focus groups...
...animated dolphin/bird that bounces happily around your computer screen in response to whistles and hand signals. Due in stores this fall, the phantasmagoric Flipper was designed to make the electronic world more friendly for 6- to 12-year-old girls. Fin-Fin is a long way from a truly smart disk-based mammal--she can't swim out to the Internet and grab an image, for instance--but Fujitsu hopes she and her electronic cousins will help demystify (and sell) computers...
...TIME TO KILL (July 12). John Grisham's update of To Kill a Mockingbird, about a black man on trial for killing a white rapist, looks like an earnest debate in unyielding close-up. The cast is led by three smart stars (Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey), so for now we'll give it a pass...