Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this sense that the system promotes a vicious circle. The men begin with some nervousness or hesitation about Harvard women--too aggressive, too serious, but most probably and unfortunately too smart. It is 1996, and intelligence still is not a social asset for a woman. Harvard men are not looking for their wives to be discovering the cure for cancer, nor to be handling a significant merger and acquisition, nor to be serving on the Supreme Court. The final club system provides the opportunity to return the women to their "proper" place. The Harvard men surround themselves with flocks...
Providing low-cost Internet access is a smart move for AT&T in other ways too. It seems likely to increase customer loyalty, because switching phone companies will now mean switching E-mail addresses and installing new software as well. The most lucrative service in the future, however, may be hooking up businesses to the Net. Currently most consumers access the Internet through their inexpensive plain old telephone line, which cannot handle much information quickly. By contrast, many businesses link to the Internet through specialized T1 lines. Although they can cost up to $30,000 a year, T1 lines...
...suit to woo the business community," she says. "This time he was back in fatigues." Fatigue is one word recent observers have pinned on the 69-year-old Castro, but last week, Booth says, "he looked fully invigorated by the crisis." So was Booth, like any reporter with a smart nose for a hot story...
...film's mad-dash energy is nicely reflected in his quartet of stars. Wong, himself a star of cinema's future, has already shown that he possesses a uniquely '90s voice, eye and spirit. You'll simply have to get to know his work. And Chungking Express--fast, smart, irresistible--is a great place to start...
...sleeping. Several said they get up at 4 a.m., and Brenda Edgerton, a vice president at Campbell Soup, said, "You get tired, awfully tired." Others advised taking up golf, reading the sports pages and getting a personality transplant. Says one: "Don't be attractive. Don't be too smart. Don't be assertive. Pretend you're not a woman. Don't be single. Don't be a mom. Don't be a divorcee...