Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whining Democratic senators who said we had "smart bombs but stupid children" sounded more like upset youngsters who got too small a piece of cake at the big party than outraged politicians. Sure, you could agree to disagree, but you couldn't disagree and make any difference...
...Make Smart Defense Cuts
...everyone, indirectly at least. Telephone and computer networks rely on atomic clocks to synchronize the flow of trillions of bits of information, thus avoiding mammoth electronic logjams. TV and radio stations use the clocks to time their broadcasts. The armed forces employ them in satellite-based navigation systems and smart- missile guidance. And scientists depend on atomic clocks to help track the almost imperceptible motions of continents across the surface of the earth and galaxies and stars across...
...that we're conclusively out of the woods, by any means, or that I was in there with the Smart Money last week paying all-time record-high prices to buy stocks myself -- "Buy low, sell high, ommmmm," I kept chanting whenever I felt the urge -- but things have definitely improved. Confidence is the name of the game; it has taken a decided turn for the better; and it's self- fulfilling. Lower interest rates make real estate and bonds more valuable, which shores up banks and insurance companies; a record-high Dow makes people , feel richer and more optimistic...
...years, American weapons technology was the butt of bitter jokes, taxpayer complaints and congressional investigations. That was before the world watched video footage of U.S. smart bombs threading the eye of Iraq's military needle...