Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wheel covers. "Personally," he says,"I'd nuke veneer interiors." But he confesses to finding some new inspiration in the pure American classics like the Cadillac touring cars of the 1930s. "I don't want my drivers to be thought of as flashy, opulent and dumb," he says, "but smart, bright and responsible." What kind of a look might that be? "What else?" says Gale, maybe seriously, and smiles. "Maybe cab-backward...
...maybe even more importantly, the Crimson has to play a smart game and not take so many retaliation penalties, which crimp its offense...
...really interested in this guy. He's smart and funny and nice and everything I could want. Almost. He likes me too and I think he'd like us to get together. But the only problem is that he's really conservative. He's anti-choice and thinks feminists are evil and misguided. And he's anti-gun control and thinks Reagan is God's gift to mankind. I disagree with him on all these issues and feel very strongly about this. I think I'd feel like a hypocrite for going out with him. What should I do? Hypocrite...
...Cuban people are doing illicitly. "I think people push, and he eventually accedes," says a Western diplomat. "I don't see any fundamental decision by Fidel to change his ways of thinking." A foreign businessman exploring joint ventures is certain that Castro is simply showing the pragmatism of a smart politician: "He's not doing any of this because he likes it but because he will do whatever he has to do to survive...
...article in New York magazine, street-smart liberal columnist Pete Hamill asserts that homelessness is a public-health problem spawned by "drunks, crackheads or crazies," not a housing problem. "In a health crisis," Hamill contends, "the rights of the community must take precedence over the rights of an individual: your freedom ends at my lung." (Hamill did not mention in the story that he battled tuberculosis a few years ago and may have contracted it from a homeless person, though he has spoken publicly of his TB in the past.) Calling for "tough-love" solutions, Hamill offers a startling proposal...