Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to say that Harvard students are an intelligent bunch of people who would take appropriate measures to minimize crime, but we aren't always as smart as we should be with regard to this issue. While none of the recent swindlers in the Square successfully victimized Harvard students, con men employing the same tactic were able to prey on several students...
...Though smart enough to beat your brain to the finish line twice before breakfast, Crichton is self-effacing sometimes to the point of disingenuousness, gracious to the point of ingratiation. Yet all the while you sense that if things weren't going his way, things wouldn't be going at all. After a day or two in his company, one gathers that Crichton would choose, in a fair world, to be treated like the next fellow; he would prefer that we acknowledge his genius, but make no fuss. ("How smart is Michael?" his wife was once asked. "How smart...
Take Crichton's dinos: unlike the dumb, drab, ponderous monsters that once graced the textbooks, his animals are smart, nimble and decked out in designer colors. The wily, vicious velociraptors are green with tiger stripes of bright red. Tyrannosaurus rex is the hue of dried blood. And a dino called Carnotaurus sastrei is a superchameleon, its skin capable of taking on the look of anything--a leafy branch, a stone wall or even a chain-link fence...
...month's end, the most drastic personnel cut currently being contemplated by any federal agency. Just as important, the Senate bill targets moneys that bulwark greater tribal autonomy. Says Kurt Russo, coordinator of the Treaty Task Force of Washington State's Lummi Nation: "What you're seeing is a smart bomb going straight to the heart of the function of tribal governments...
When Powell finally did meet the President-elect for the first time, on Nov. 19, he came away impressed: "Clinton was self-assured, smart, curious, likable and passionate about his ideas.'' Powell never wavers far from that initial assessment (in the book, at least), but he offers a devastating critique of the Administration's modus operandi. National security meetings "meandered like graduate-student bull sessions ellipse Backbenchers sounded off with the authority of Cabinet officers. I was shocked one day to hear one of [National Security Adviser] Tony Lake's subordinates, who was there to take notes, argue with...