Word: smarting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this new playground, each customer converts cash into a "smart card" of, say, $10, which allows you to play any of 200 games, or to buy a latte or a tray of Cajun fries. A typical game costs $1.25 a play. Upstairs there's an Internet lounge where you can surf the Web for 12[cents] a minute or pursue retro-tech avocations such as pinball and air hockey while you sip a beer made at GameWorks' very own brewery...
...barroom table and pull her bra out through the sleeve of her blouse. The rapid tuition increases that occurred after my graduation were only vaguely interesting to me, like reading about a bank robbery in a distant town. Now, however, at the age of 43, with three smart daughters and having just begun to save for college, I find myself acutely interested. Make that horrified...
...private money at the apogee of public disgust over the practice is perverse. The White House sees no such disconnect. If, in fact, the sign of a first-rate intellect is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind and still function, then President Clinton is as smart as he wants to be, which unfortunately is not smart enough to know better. For him, fund raising is a no-brainer...
...Bergin (Papp, Smart...
...from those early days at Pascagoula Junior High, the well-starched and whip-smart boy started reaching out, discreetly helping others with homework. He paid special attention to the kids who, like himself, weren't athletic or attractive. "And you know what?" he says. "Turns out we were the majority...