Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some fear that basic skills will suffer if uniform testing of students is abolished. "That would definitely be a mistake in math," says Steven Jarrett, an eighth-grade math teacher in Craftsbury. "Algebra needs to be practiced continuously." Concedes Ross Brewer, director of the Vermont project: "There are no smart people to copy. We are literally making this thing up as we go along...
...advised to wear "a sun block of 2,000" on Aug. 29, 1997. Otherwise you will be among the 3 billion people fried in a nuclear war triggered by some very smart, nasty computers. Lands will be leveled. Bodies will crumble like burned paper. Corrosive gales will surge across the earth. This ultimate special effect will come to pass . . . unless three little people -- actually two little people and a big burly cyborg -- can do some serious computer hacking...
...There are two possibilities: one, that you were a smart criminal who never got caught, and two, it is always possible to bribe the authorities...
...made without condescension, because swift and artful pacing is the novel's strongest quality. With his five earlier books, Boyd, 39, has gained an enviable reputation as an intellectual who wears his learning lightly, when he does not toss it aside completely. Stars and Bars was a smart send-up of both British and American roads to corruption. The New Confessions turned a dubious premise, a reprise of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life, into a fluent book that is both romp and rumination. His new book is not so bumptiously funny as previous ones, but the author cannot resist...
Last December, a few weeks before the smart bombs and cruise missiles began to rain down on Baghdad, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft posed a question: "Can the U.S. use force -- even go to war -- for carefully defined national interests, or do we have to have a moral crusade or a galvanizing event like Pearl Harbor?" Put another way, Scowcroft was asking whether a nation traumatized by its defeat in Vietnam had grown up enough to accept its leadership responsibilities in the murkier world that emerged with the end of the cold...