Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...networks can still create hits without the help of surefire time periods. And it has proved that viewers will try something challenging when given a chance. As Crichton relates, "People in the entertainment business said, 'Viewers won't understand this show.' Finally, there's a recognition that people are smart." Television sometimes...
...rewarding North Korea's bad behavior? Yes. Does buying off Pyongyang's nuclear-weapons program set a bad precedent? Yes. So Bill Clinton sold out, right? Wrong. The deal is smart and tough, a triumph of patient and creative diplomacy...
...Administration's deal is smart because it directly addresses that possibility by focusing on the North's future capability first. It's important to know about Pyongyang's existing nuclear capacity, but seeking to resolve that question now would have been a deal breaker. The agreement is smarter still because if Clinton had managed to induce the North to abide only by the terms of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Pyongyang could continue to reprocess plutonium so long as it promised not to use the fuel to build weapons. "But that assumes the International Atomic Energy Agency could guarantee that...
...People saw a Mitt Romney who was smart, strong on crime, strong on welfare," said Charlie Manning, Romney's political consultant...
...hard not to notice that individuals have inherently unequal mental capacities. Each of us has, no doubt, encountered the full spectrum: the impossibly obtuse, the merely incompetent, the average Joe, the smart fella and the inconceivably brilliant. People object when accused of stupidity; but, few question the basic thesis that some got it and others...