Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have at least scored for humor if he had repeated his stump line about Clinton having more programs than there are problems. His answers were forthright and comprehensive, and almost miraculously, he avoided making long lists in all but a few answers. On the stump Clinton can appear too smart; indeed, at times he is almost smart- alecky, like the kid who raises his hand to remind the teacher that he forgot to assign homework over Christmas. There was none of that in St. Louis, just an appropriate sense of urgency coupled with rhetorical certitude, the two combining to leave...
...Computers will be as smart as humans and have personalities like humans...
...happened that in Lowell there seemed to be a lot of students who expressed an interest in keeping kosher, so opening one here seemed like a smart thing to do," he said...
...SMART BOMB DOWN THE SMOKESTACK of the financial part of the Cali cartel's operations," said U.S. Deputy Attorney General George Terwilliger. ! The Desert Storm terminology seemed at odds with the central metaphor of Operation Green Ice, the international drug bust that broke up the complex financial infrastructure of Colombia's premier cocaine cartel. But the effect was at least as impressive. Law-enforcement officials from the U.S. and seven other nations coordinated an assault of unprecedented depth and scope on Cali's network of money managers and distributors. At week's end, more than 165 people had been arrested...
POLITICS MAY BE IN VOGUE IN PRIME time, but inside-the-Beltway sitcoms like Hearts Afire and The Powers That Be look cheesy next to a really smart political film like HBO's RUNNING MATES. Ed Harris plays a slick U.S. Senator who needs a wife to boost his bid for the presidency. Diane Keaton is a children's book author who falls for him but becomes a liability when a past indiscretion surfaces. The two stars click as a romantic team; there are nice offbeat touches (Keaton's mentally unbalanced brother, played by Ed Begley Jr.); and the backstage...