Word: smarting
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...never going to be the tough bounty hunter with all kinds of skills. That's just not what she's about. I've heard her described as ditzy, but she's absolutely not ditzy. She's not entirely prepared for the job she does, but she's smart, she's resilient, she's tenacious. She does the best that she can with what she has to work with. She has other ways of making her captures. Where a man might want to muscle his way in, beat down the door and drag somebody out, Stephanie Plum doesn't have...
...life-threatening encounters with con men in silver mines-one tried to throw him down a shaft, he says. And not long ago, he was robbed. It's little consolation to Boissevain that the burglars evidently mistook his fake diamonds for the real thing. "They mustn't be very smart," he says mournfully...
...time." The Burtons cautiously employ the ideas of nutritionists and agro-nomists. "You can't go in with a theory and spend a squillion. First run a trial." It's the tough times when fortunes are made; the family has taken risks, been lucky and studied how smart people make and implement decisions. "In good seasons you learn very little," says Burton. "In bad seasons you learn your country...
...year's levels. KB Home, a national builder, says its cancellation rate shot up to 37% in the second quarter, from 25% a year earlier. "People are making arguably the most significant economic decision in their life," says CEO Bruce Karatz. "They want to feel like they're being smart, and in some markets it's unclear whether it's smart to buy a home...
Most times, when someone spouts off about how awful the Jews are, I blow it off as ignorance. If the guy just got to know us, he would totally dig us. We're funny and warm and smart and totally self-effacing. We send Ben Stiller to Iran for a few weeks, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be opening up Noah's bagel shops in all the strip malls in Tehran. The only problem is that with just 0.02% of the world's population, we can't do nearly as many personal appearances as we'd like. That's why we took...