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Word: smarter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guess because high school textbooks stink. Also, we are constantly told + that American students are even stupider than we thought. So I'm just dumping on the whole idea that we need to make our kids smarter, by putting out a book that will clearly not do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with DAVE BARRY: Madcap Airs All | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

Hollywood needs a regeneration, and the role of spokesman that I singularly failed at is still available to someone -- someone smarter than me, someone American, a person who can articulate on behalf of the greater film community the frustration and the need for change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with DAVID PUTTNAM: A Man Who Hates Rambo | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...this analysis has made this writer tired, but smarter. He can now present his reasons why Harvard will win the Beanpot this year...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Why Harvard Will Win at the Garden | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...three main engines, a system designed exclusively for shuttle missions. Buran piggybacks on the l97-ft.-high Energia, the world's largest operational booster rocket -- a multipurpose powerhouse designed to lift shuttles or unmanned spacecraft weighing up to 100 tons. "Energia could be said to be a much smarter system than what we've got, since it could take anything up," says Seth Arenstein, editor of Soviet Aerospace magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Sunny Debut for Snowstorm | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

Though at first he resisted the idea of giving up sprinting, the perverseness of specializing in versatility appealed to his sense of justice and mischief. "In any walk of life, there'll always be a bloke more talented in this or that, who's smarter in some way, or richer, or faster, or just better suited. But can the thing that he was given be lined up against everything you've got?" At 6 ft. 1/2 in. and 195 lbs., much too thick and blocky for track, though not nearly brawny or flexible enough for the field, Thompson is ideally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Regal Masters Of Olympic Versatility | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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