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Word: smartest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...important, they caused our work to be accepted because they were the only ones really close to Tatiana. She was the key. The others in the campaign were like snakes, and snakes, you know, often eat each other. Putting his daughter in to get things done was Yeltsin's smartest move, and she was clearly leaning on the Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESCUING BORIS | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

Once again, Harvard's incoming first-years are the smartest, most talented and most carefully selected in the school's history, according to statistics released by Admissions Office...

Author: By R. ALAN Leo, | Title: Talent Abounds in Class of '00 | 7/2/1996 | See Source »

...uninitiated, the 200/400 double sounds no more difficult than the more common 100/200 or 400/800 combinations. "The 200 and 400 are totally different animals," says Hart. If the 200 is a race that goes to the swiftest, the 400 goes to the smartest and strongest. Johnson, in fact, embodies those superlatives--his physique suggests a linebacker recently converted from wide receiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHAEL JOHNSON: THE DOUBLE DARE | 6/28/1996 | See Source »

What would women pay to be impregnated, by remote control or even after the donor's death, by the world's smartest physicist or most talented violinist or most accomplished adventurer? That isn't so preposterous as it may sound. A few years back, William Shockley, Nobel-prizewinning co-inventor of the transistor, attracted ridicule by making a deposit in a sperm bank that accepted donations only from men with high IQs. But with biological immortality as a lure, more of the world's most accomplished men--or, failing that, a bunch of rock stars and politicians--might be only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SPERM THAT NEVER DIES | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...quickly let it slide to third place. Littlefield has not only kept his job for nearly six years--an eternity in his profession--but has masterminded NBC's surprising rebound to No. 1 this season. The TV industry is coming to a startling realization: Warren Littlefield may be the smartest programmer in the business. In fact, one of his top lieutenants, Jamie McDermott, is reportedly being wooed by ABC to head its programming department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: STILL STANDING IN BURBANK | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

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