Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jeffords was far too smart for that. "We have many things in common," he said, speaking of Dole. "He's a plainspoken Senator from the Plains, and I'm a succinct, let-you-know-what-I-think person from Vermont." What Jeffords thought of Clinton's stimulus package was hardly nonnegotiable. "I'm holding firm. If they slice $8 billion or $9 billion out of it, I can live with it. Otherwise, no deal...
...explosion of new fossils, high-tech analysis and revamped theory has revolutionized how scientists think of these prehistoric giants. They turn out to have been quick, smart, sociable -- and odder looking than most people dream...
Being the ultimate agent, however, isn't enough for Ovitz; he's thinking bigger, ignoring nearly all the comfortable old show business boundaries. Lately he has extended his radius of operations, scaring the bejesus out of Madison Avenue by devising two dozen smart, sexy TV spots for Coca-Cola, and he may be looking to poach other business from the ad agencies. And still he wants more. He has turned himself into the movie industry's highest-profile investment broker in the past few years, arranging the multibillion-dollar acquisitions of Columbia Pictures by Sony and MCA/Universal by Matsushita...
...energetically spreading the idea that Ovitz isn't minding the store. Says Block about CAA's extracurricular businesses: "Smart clients question what's the value-added service when senior agents are busy with outside deals, and they get shunted to junior agents." His boss Jeff Berg echoes that point: "My core business is managing the careers of talented people." This may be the major risk in Ovitz's expansive strategy; CAA clients could start to feel neglected and then restless, even if their fears were unjustified...
...this the year for young stars like St. Louis Cardinals centerfielder Ray Lankford and Blue Jays second baseman Roberto Alomar? (Yes, mark them down as smart-money candidates...