Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...laserlike intellect radiated from behind his clear-rimmed glasses with an intensity as hot as his smile was cold. Had he been half as smart, he might have been a great man. Instead, McGeorge Bundy, who died last week in Boston of a heart attack at 77, came to personify the hubris of an intellectual elite that marched America with a cool and confident brilliance into the quagmire of Vietnam...
...electronic transactions that cost just pennies to process. Citibank, a leader in this push for a cashless society, is developing what it calls an Electronic Monetary System that will permit consumers and companies to make payments electronically anywhere in the world. Visa, fresh off a test of 300,000 smart cards--plastic embedded with a cache of electronic cash--at the Atlanta Olympics, will soon launch similar projects in 14 other countries, including Canada, Australia and in Hong Kong...
...money devotees like Valerie Baptiste, a San Francisco secretary, think cash is passe. Baptiste pays for her morning bagel and decaf with a smart card designed by Britain's Mondex and being tested in the U.S. with partners that include Wells Fargo and AT&T. As other customers fumble with change, Baptiste hands her card to a cashier who takes less than five seconds to punch it into a machine that deducts $2.15 from the stored-up funds. "This is the beginning of the end of cash," Baptiste says. Unless banks charge swiftly into the E-money era, it could...
...production company--though there aren't many independent companies left for comparison. As media mergers proliferate and most small producers have sought shelter under the umbrella of a studio, Carsey and Werner are determined to keep going it alone. In doing so, they have proved that a couple of smart programmers with good instincts and enough confidence to fight for what they believe in can still be a power in prime time...
...Connie Stevens Forever Spring Ginseng Pack 315,955 2 Adrien Arpel 4-in-1 Skin Care Complex 301,311 3 Quick N Brite Cleaner 264,649 4 Smart Chopper 260,396 5 Tony Little Ab Isolater 225,458 6 Connie Stevens Forever Spring Collagen Skin Quencher 223,936 7 Smart Mop Set 211,589 8 Adrien Arpel Kaleidoscope compact 201,381 9 14K Oval Ear Studs with choice of gemstone 194,259 10 Lifeway's Ginseng Royal Jelly...