Word: smarted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Secondly, with so many smart folks around here you cannot always expect As, but in many Core courses you always can. Professors tend to be Mr. Hydes dealing with concentrators, but turn into Dr. Jekylls when dealing with "Core-ers." They know clearly that they are out there to propound modes, not depth, of thinking. They care about your grades more than you do. A very good example would be the No. 1 core, Ec 10, where Pareto efficiency is reached by a neat "unit test" system -- if you spend twenty minutes passing those extremely easy tests, your final grade...
...wish I still had my 1937 ``stupid'' car, a six-cylinder Dodge with no gadgets. For air conditioning, I would crank open the windshield, and I got a consistent 18 m.p.g. Pity the poor smart-car buyer who has a breakdown in the boonies...
...current decade really will be venerated by future chroniclers of pop culture, it may well be because the '90s have produced an appealing stable of new actors who stand in smart contrast to the so-called Brat Pack of the '80s, the cliquish band of young stars that included Nelson, Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy and various sons of Martin Sheen. The '90s newcomers also provide a downtown alternative to married-with-children superstars like Demi Moore or Tom Cruise. Brad Pitt, Ethan Hawke, Winona Ryder, Uma Thurman and a handful of others, all in their 20s and early 30s, share...
...girl by popping wheelies in a parking lot. Hawke would be more likely to take her to his dorm room and show off his John Coltrane collection. Rather than overt sex appeal, actresses like Marisa Tomei and the Parkers project the flustered insouciance of college coeds. They are the smart, pretty girls on campus who keep losing their library cards. Declares Thurman: "I am completely a goofball nerd...
...Still, a major study conducted for the government concluded that requiring Medicare recipients to use HMOs could reduce the government's costs as much as 10%. Perhaps, suggest some, even greater savings might be possible if HMOs were competing for large numbers of Medicare patients. And as consumers make smart purchases, the marketplace would naturally produce greater efficiency at less cost. That kind of scenario gives people like Wilensky hope. ``This is the best kind of public- sector health-care reform I can think of,'' she says. Daring not speak the words managed competition, Republicans like to say this plan...