Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrichmade an effort to be more statesmanlike in an interview aired last night, apologizing for calling the Clinton White House staff a bunch of "McGoverniks" after Election Day and ruin his "enemies of normal people" remark. "The truth is, occasionally, I'm not very smart," Gingrich told Dateline NBC. "I probably need to be 30 percent less pugnacious and 50 less negative." Meanwhile, the first comment's indirect target, former Senator and Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, responded in a column in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "I fully welcome the scorn of Gingrich. I have...
...work with the President--as long as the latter is willing to work with him to cut welfare, property taxes, and institute school prayer. And if the President doesn't? "I prefer to believe," Gingrich darkly informed The New York Times, "(that) this President, who is clearly quite smart, is quite capable of thinking clearly about a message sent by the American people...
...months and cost $1 million. He claims he auditioned 1,000 women before happening upon British actress Whalley-Kilmer one evening while watching television. "She is that determined little girl who knows exactly what she wants," says Halmi. "She can also manipulate people: she's bitchy, she's smart, she's lovable...
...important, you would reject the ugly, racist hypothesis that Blacks are inherently less intelligent than whites. And if you took the time to interact with Black students at Harvard as individuals, instead of discounting them as a group, you would realize that they are every bit as smart as you think you are. Michael Pine...
...Because that thin air has been set aside to create "personal communication ! services" that may someday connect everybody to everybody else -- like the phone system does today, but without those constricting telephone wires. Through streams of digital data, PCS providers could deliver all kinds of exotic services, from smart cars that call for help when they've been stolen to vending machines that order their own refills. They could be the foundation for a wireless electronic-mail network -- a kind of information highway of the airwaves -- through which people could send and receive messages anywhere, anytime. In futuristic scenarios, these...