Word: smarted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...feelings about my country and where it is. That's the first thing. The other is that there weren't that many [serious] films coming out, because the film business has gone a little more toward straight-out entertainment. So when I saw the script, I thought, This is smart. It's also tricky, because it's a triptych. How do you balance out three stories that seem to be disparate but are connected and have to come together in a vortex at the end? All points of view needed to be represented so we wouldn't be categorized...
Black has revealed some of her secrets to ambitious young women, with a smart new advice book cum memoir called Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life). Ambitious would certainly describe Black at the beginning of her career in 1966 as a lowly sales assistant at the now defunct Holiday magazine. She moved fast from the start, sometimes too fast for her own good. She once left her résumé on a copy machine at work, where it was found by a senior executive at Curtis Publishing Co., Holiday's owner. Oops. She learned...
...higher-priced stuff at Wal-Mart or, as happened in apparel, it's the wrong stuff on the shelves. "It just doesn't work," he is muttering while acknowledging the problem: "How do you move an entire company across this category?" Answer: "You've got to be smart...
...situation. Thanks to The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and the local school district’s “Title I School Improvement†status, we have an entire building full of federally funded posterboard, copy machines, and as of my last visit, several new SMART Boards. My English department, also sponsored by federal funds, just purchased thousands of dollars worth of literature. Most of my students, however, do not need copy machines and an edition of Anna Karenina. They first need to know that a period comes before quotation marks and that a paragraph...
...Focusing on his own message in the aftermath of his debate success, rather than immediately attacking Clinton, is a smart tactic, says Stephanie Cutter, another Democratic strategist and former adviser to the 2004 Kerry campaign, who isn't working for a campaign this election cycle. "If someone's going to make a move in this election, now's the time to do it," Cutter says. "Being aggressive is one thing. Going on a full-scale attack is another. Edwards tried to position himself as the outside Washington truth-teller. He's got to be careful how he goes after...