Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This myth preaches that the individual in America is all-powerful; s/he can do anything, accomplish anything, no matter what the odds are, if s/he is good enough, smart enough to learn the ropes. No one ever remembers that luck plays an incredibly large role in all this...
...reporter in the 1960s, reinvents himself as a gonzo journalist and gets the call from Hollywood to write scripts. He clashes with studio heads and Hollywood power brokers, even the awesome Michael Ovitz, but he survives and thrives. As he turns out a succession of sexy, if not particularly smart, screenplays such as Flashdance, Jagged Edge and Basic Instinct, his fee rises to a record-breaking $3 million per script, making him the town's hottest writer...
...Rather going on the air together next Tuesday, there is a curiously hasty quality to the rejiggering. Stringer wanted to have the deal done before the CBS affiliates' meeting this week, and he was apparently in a fret about the competition. He may be worried that Andrew Lack, the smart new NBC News president who came from CBS (where he was Chung's executive producer), will work some sudden magic at NBC. Then there's the chance CBS may lose Ed Bradley, who is being offered millions to defect...
...Harvey C. Mansfield believes that women will never be as successful as men in "the aggressive occupations--that is, the occupations which require one to leave the home" (Harvard Review of Philosophy, Spring 1993). I find it shocking that a Harvard faculty member, who certainly must have encountered many smart and ambitious women students in the course of his teaching, could hold such an opinion...
This represents the essential flaw in giving out exams questions in advance. For too many students, the exam winds up testing how smart their friends are, and how well the other members of their study group prepared their assigned questions. Some final clubs even have lists of answer's on file...