Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tragic course. Salaries have got out of hand. The system has got to change." Who's to blame? Angels Executive Vice President Buzzie Bavasi has a frank answer: "We give it to them. We can't complain too much. The players are a lot smarter than we've been...
...Moscone had said after White turned in his resignation. "I think he's a good guy." But while White was out of office, opposition to him had developed in his ethnically mixed district, and the affable but politically shrewd Moscone had decided it would be smarter for him to appoint a more compatible, liberal man to White's position on the board...
This new farmer is smarter as well as richer than the farmers of an earlier time. One man says, "It used to be that if you had a child who wasn't too bright, you'd say, 'Son, you're going to be a farmer." But things are different...
Caltech's high standards and its required menu of advanced science courses put undergraduates under fierce pressure. "When I came here, I felt everybody in the class was smarter than I was," recalls Senior Peter DeWees, who graduated second in his Riverside, Calif., high school class. "In the physics course, you could earn a possible 30 points on one test. I got one point." Top scorers though they are, 30% of the entering class do not graduate from Caltech. Observes Dean of Students Ray Owen: "At midyear, half the freshmen are failing math and one-third are failing physics. They...
...joggers as assaulted by muggers. New York has the fifth highest major crime rate among the ten largest cities in the nation, behind Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles and Detroit. Major crimes in New York decreased last year by 6.4%, perhaps because the potential victims have become a good deal smarter and more cautious. Apartment houses have installed closed-circuit TV and buzzer systems. In large office buildings, guards check identification passes...