Word: smarting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Their players are definitely not the most athletic ones we face," Larson said. "They won't attack you, but they will beat you with a lot of short, quick passes, and they always play smart...
...Henry's The Gift of the Magi) has become an object of both envy and contempt among other start-ups. ("You can't even call them a start-up anymore," grumbles a friend and fellow entrepreneur.) Herrin, 26, and Lefcourt, 30, come off as the girls who were too smart to talk to you in high school. Herrin had an outline for her wedding-registry business even before she entered Stanford in the fall of 1997. "I wanted to do something entrepreneurial," she says. "The M.B.A. wasn't the end goal." She soon met Lefcourt, who confided that...
...thirtysomething, My So-Called Life and Relativity--they and the team of intensely loyal writers who make up the production company Bedford Falls have explored the quiet dramas of ordinary life. Their latest effort, starring the winsome duo of Sela Ward and Billy Campbell, is, like its predecessors, a smart, angsty and intimate reflection of its creators' aesthetic and personal concerns...
...company, it makes the Visor "infinitely expandable," allowing you to choose the devices you need to add functionality. Buy the cell-phone attachment, plug it in (even while your Visor is on--software is built into the add-ons), and you suddenly have a simple way of making "smart" calls, managing three-way calling, call waiting and all the rest. Or, imagine a global-positioning device that automatically interfaces with a database of ATMs so that when you visit an unfamiliar city, you can instantly find a machine that takes your bank card without adding its usurious access...
...guns should be equipped with safeties. The most senseless deaths are those of children playing with guns and accidentally killing themselves or their friends. The use of "smart gun" technology, which prevents anyone but the owner from firing a gun, should be mandated as soon as is technically feasible...