Word: smarting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into July. Dole stopped by some of the meetings but would listen only 30 minutes or so and then leave. "We're talking and arguing back and forth, very academic," a participant in one meeting recalls, "and Dole is looking at his watch. 'You're a bunch of smart guys,' he said. 'Get something on paper.' And then he was on to the next issue." That was classic Dole: let others work out details and step in only during the final negotiations...
This vision from around the technological bend has, in various forms, preoccupied the automotive industry for decades. The basic idea is always the same. Proponents imagine a morning someday in the next century when you and your smart car pull out of the garage, drive down local roads in the conventional manner and head for the "smartway." There you will merge into the auto lanes, activate your robo-driver and relax. The car will hurtle along at high speed--perhaps up to 140 m.p.h.--only a few feet from the cars in front and behind but protected by collision-avoidance...
Someday, say the futurists, our streets will be filled with computer-controlled cars so "smart" they will make the prototype I'm riding in look like a brain-damaged Model T. These high-IQ roadsters will, perhaps within our lifetime, speed down smart highways under their own command, turning drivers into passengers, saving billions of dollars and transforming commuters' lives in the process...
...offensive burden will now be placed on seniors Vinny Auger (injury-plagued in each of his last two seasons) and Matt Cooney (13-21-34). Junior Ryan Smart (8-19-27) and last year's ECAC Rookie of the Year Kyle Knopp (11-19-30) showed great promise and should have a strong impact as well...
...wasn't a smart thing [for Garrett] to do, but he did it anyway," Griffen said, noting that Garrett was outnumbered. "I wasn't gonna let Garrett get beat to death...