Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drastic and basic changes in both the organizing of knowledge, and the actions which it will energize, are hard upon us in a free enterprise society. The abundance of discussions and studies on university-industry combinations has brought out the heartening recognition that we should know more and act smarter than we do. But the ways of acting smarter, specifically by knowing more, which is what industry might hope to achieve by university conjunction, are not so easy. This is especially because the organizing of knowledge that industry requires and has long extracted from...
...From everything I know," he says, "Andropov is a smarter, more imaginative breed of Soviet leader. While he's a ruthless, dedicated Communist, he's realistic enough to know that the Soviet Union is in desperate shape internally and that it's suffering from acute international indigestion. It has taken big bites out of Afghanistan and other countries, but it hasn't been able to digest them. It's paying the cost of conquest in Poland, Cuba and Viet Nam. The system has been an abject failure at home and has no appeal abroad...
...beer bottles and nervous wives. For the two dozen former Special Forces men jammed into the hotel suite for their reunion, many dressed in fatigues, there had clearly never been a Veterans Day quite like this. "How are the Green Berets different?" piped up former Sergeant Mark Atchison. Tougher? Smarter? No. "We believed it. We tried to win their hearts and minds. We never called 'em 'gooks.' " An instant later at the bar an argument about a shoulder patch turned into an abortive brawl. "A lot of people here," suggested Russ Lindley, a long-haired ex-paratrooper...
Will the rich get smarter while the poor play videogames...
...biggest lesson of this whole episode is that Californians may be smarter than we think they are. So when a beach bunny from San Diego giggles and asks you, "Have you seen a volleyball match today?" remember: don't laugh...