Word: smarter
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Obama Administration, change begins with the low-hanging fruit of energy efficiency, pursued through mandates and incentives to get vehicles to use less fuel and get appliances, buildings and factories to use less power. It's also pushing investment in wind, solar and other renewables, along with a smarter grid to exploit them. At the same time, Obama wants massive increases in federal energy research and development, plus a cap-and-trade regime that would accelerate private-sector advances by putting a price on carbon. The overall goal is to reduce emissions as well as U.S. dependence on foreign petro...
...Predictions: You’ll spend days sitting on your bed watching lecture videos, since you stopped going to class in March. You’ll study less, but still get a B+. You will arrive back home paler and smarter than the rest of your high school friends...
...high-powered lawyer, and he probably takes you out to lunch from time to time. But being a legacy with thoughts of applying is a very specific kind of adversity. What if you don’t make it? Will this prove that your parents are in fact smarter than you are—a thought mortifying to most adolescents? Besides, after growing up in a household where everyone has fond memories of The Crimson or the Hist and Lit department, you know exactly what you’re getting into. And although you know that, should you be accepted...
...when he was down in Bethany Beach, Del. Novak loved to dish, yes, and his column, with its vast reach, had its uses for people all over town. But he pushed me to think, to analyze Washington and to look around corners at what was happening. He made me smarter in dozens of ways, and for that I will always be grateful. Over many lunches at the Army and Navy Club on Farragut Square, he also became a friend in whom I could confide and and from whom I often sought advice. I know I wasn't the only...
...they get that way? Are they just smarter than everybody else? That always helps. But they're not just IQ-smart. It's a puzzle-solving facility. The most important quality in these doctors is that they just know so much. One of the doctors that I go to when I'm stumped has a screen saver on his computer that says, "Have you kept up with the literature today?" These are people who are constantly learning and adding to an already sizable knowledge base. And they have seen a lot. That's very important, because a disease...