Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gates, a dropout of the class of 1977, said in the release that a new building and supplemented faculty will "promote an interdisciplinary approach that will encourage great ideas from a diverse group of smart people working closely together...
...Schiller, Toobin and Cochran are all published by Random House, Inc., has not tempered their Bosnia-like, three-way war. When Cochran finishes attacking Schiller, he has a few choice words to say about Toobin: "His opinions really are racist in their implications: that the jurors weren't very smart, that I'm this charismatic fellow that goes around and convinces people of stuff." Cochran simply denies a big scoop in The Run of His Life, that shortly after the murders, he told a friend Simpson should plead guilty...
...founder Reginald Lewis in 1988, when Lewis was selling assets to finance his $1 billion leveraged buyout of the company. Only later did McCarroll meet Lewis' wife (and now widow) Loida, whose successful turnaround of the company is the subject of this week's story. "She's just as smart, savvy and shrewd as the next guy, but without all the macho and bluster," says McCarroll, who has covered his share of corporate movers and shakers, including Bill Gates, Michael Milken and Donald Trump. "I can see how her adversaries often make the mistake of underestimating...
Peter suffers from a deep passivity, bred by East Germany's attempts to "produce a worker for the worker's state, someone not too smart, not too skeptical." When Peter first arrives in Hamburg in 1985, Kramer writes, "He had a little cassette player, tapes by Pink Floyd, Grace Slick, and the Grateful Dead, a filter coffeepot, and two hundred and fifty grams of Jacobs Fein und Mild Guatemala-blend coffee. He had everything he needed until someone came and told him what...
...face to face, we could have dispensed with all that tired, wetware chitchat. Our Thinking Tags could have negotiated any fruitful common ground. These tags, the brainchildren of Borovoy and a team of researchers at M.I.T.'s Media Lab, are little wearable computers that can seek out other "smart" tags in a room and swap data. In that way, one can, upon approaching a stranger at a crowded, Thinking Tag-equipped conference, immediately know whether it's worth the brain cycles to attempt social intercourse...