Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McGuire writes, "Although these men would be better served if they came to recognize a smart woman as something other than a threat to their manhood, an 18-year-old instinct will not be educated away with an RUS visit to a proctor meeting." What this says is that 18-year-old first-year boys are men, and that men in some circumstances are justified in their ignorance and hatred of women. McGuire suggests a separation of the sexes in order to maintain that hated, rather than a forceful confrontation of those fears and hatreds...
...most Americans, is already accepted as fact by the motor moguls in Detroit, where a remarkable technological transformation is occurring. Gone are the days when that city's machines were regarded as handsome and powerful but basically dumb brutes. Today the buzz words in the Motor City are "smart cars," vehicles that literally think for themselves, diagnose their own problems and compensate for their drivers' frailties and failures, while ensuring a safer, more comfortable ride. A few smart-car features are already available on higher-priced vehicles, and Detroit intends to raise the IQ of many models even further...
...Automotive, which produces electronic and structural components for the Big Three. "No one should think of Detroit anymore in terms of steel stampings and iron castings. It's the largest consumer-electronics industry in the world. The vehicles are going to become smarter in how they stop smart, how they handle smart, and how they keep you from getting into trouble...
Sure, many classes do not give out Cs, but the students here should not be punished for taking a course with smart people. Grades are competitive enough at this school. If you reinstitute the C as a regular grade (as opposed to the equivalent of an F) students will be scared off from ever experimenting with courses outside their best field. It is not as if the university does not already make a big distinction between As and Bs by having a jump on the 15 point grade-point average scale...
...people who are really smart and workreally hard don't have the time to work as hard asyou need to to really excel here," says swimmerJoshua L. Adams '97. "It's a choice...