Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...place on the ticket. Clinton and Gore -- the new gold dust twins of the Democratic Party -- had been eyeing each other warily for years. Only 19 months apart in age (Gore, 44, is the younger), they have been in many ways so similar, so driven, so high-test-scores smart, so blue-suit sincere that it once seemed inevitable that their ambitions for the White House would collide. Consider the dualities: both are new-ideas moderates with a policy wonk's love of the intricacies of complex issues; both boast blue-ribbon educational pedigrees and are not ashamed to show...
...Some British sources estimate that would require at least 300,000 troops and up to a year of intense battle. "In the gulf war, the allies' high-tech stuff worked well," says Michael Dewar, deputy director of London's International Institute of Strategic Studies. But in mountain guerrilla warfare, "smart weapons are of little use. It would mean tough infantry combat from tree to tree...
Harvard faculty members close to Sen. Albert Gore Jr. '69 said yesterday the Tennessee Senator is a smart choice for the Democratic vice presidential nomination...
...stations and an unnerving sense that the industrial Western world could no longer count on endless supplies of cheap oil. Meanwhile, under American soil lay a quarter of the world's coal supply -- easily enough to power the nation into the 22nd century. If Smith and Keller -- two smart, practical fellows who cared about the environment -- could develop a process to burn coal cleaner and at a price that was competitive with Middle East oil, they could help fill a national need and win themselves a place alongside great American inventor-entrepreneurs like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell...
...wondered, could this tragedy happen to a good, clean-living, smart kid like me? Did this prove the basic impotence of individuals to determine their own fate? What would befall me next--jury duty? Mistaken arrest? Cardiac arrest...