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Word: smarted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They had a lot of public relations and legal vulnerabilities and they were smart to deal with it," Jaeger says...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University, Union Ink New Labor Deal | 10/13/1999 | See Source »

...really, really hard. A lot of really smart people worked really hard. The pattern of casual employment is so variable," said University General Counsel Anne Taylor...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University, Union Ink New Labor Deal | 10/13/1999 | See Source »

...dangers of smoking play for laughs on the evening news." So they decided it was time to move on to a new tactic: admitting that a preponderance of evidence shows cigarettes to be risky, while leaving the actual language of disease to various government agencies. "This move is smart for Philip Morris from a legal standpoint as well," says Cohen. "Plaintiffs against the cigarette makers have been winning cases by divorcing themselves from the assumption of risk. The line is: If the cigarette companies won?t admit cigarettes are dangerous, how were we supposed to know they?d kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Flash: Cigarettes Harmful to Your Health | 10/13/1999 | See Source »

...leadership is in charge in Moscow, and they claim to have learned from their previous failures. More important, they claim to have learned from NATO's almost casualty-free successes in Kosovo. Last week, before a blackout descended on military news, Moscow TV carried cockpit footage of a Russian smart missile destroying its Chechen target. It'll be a nice short offensive, General Valery Manilov of the General Staff declared cheerfully. If the troops move "energetically," he predicted, "we won't have to winter there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Back Into The Inferno | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

This bot-driven universe won't arrive until a few kinks have been ironed out. Right now, says Jeff Kephart, manager of the agents and e-merchant phenomena group at IBM, price bots don't understand that undercutting your competitor is not always smart. "This gives rise to price wars," says Kephart, who in tests has watched the sell bots give the store away in a competitive frenzy. "They're pretty dumb," he notes. "We have to give them a sense of anticipation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bot Till You Drop | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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