Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Microsoft dismissed the memos as innocuous research reports. "Are you surprised by this?" asked a spokesman. "Any smart company keeps track of what's going on in the marketplace." If only to stomp...
...smart race, snarled, boasted, was entertaining, campaigned in a sweatshirt ("Retaliate in '98"), sat in on the televised debates with his two opponents (who didn't bother to mess with him), kept saying he was no politician and expressed himself more bluntly than had been customary in Minnesota politics. He cussed a little. He was vaguely outrageous, the right thing to be when you're running against two suits...
...tactic that they are best at is a great, crisp passing game," Browning said. "They have a very smart team, that will capitalize on mistakes. We especially have to do a good job at limiting their outside shots, because that's how they beat us last time...
...wrong to propose its unconditional supremacy over the hypothetical imperative. He attacked the premise of autonomous will in an argument by reductio ad absurdum, taking it to the Objectionist extreme as put forth by Ayn Rand. I was all, like, impressed, and wanted to show him that I was smart too, so I was about to bring up the need for primary AND secondary laws in a society--and then I farted. Everyone heard me, even the proseminar on Hegel next door! I was so embarrassed...
However, it is foolish to believe that war has been completely transformed from the bloody battles of the trenches to surgical smart-bombs and Tomahawk missiles...