Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...investment, like any other capital investment, only more profitable. A recent survey by two Princeton economists found that every additional year of education at any stage increased income an average 16%. If so, expanding the availability of education -- as through the proposed National Service Trust Fund -- is just a smart investment, while the Reagan-era cutbacks may have been penny-wise and dollar-dumb. Liberal? Conservative? Does it matter...
...aspiring to art. So was the 1924 atrocity it portrays. When Nathan Leopold (Craig Chester) and Richard Loeb (Daniel Schlachet), two rich young homosexuals, murdered the child Bobby Franks, they were creating a portrait of themselves: powerful elitists, unsullied by the vulgarity of conscience. Director Kalin -- a comer -- is smart enough not to explain the murderers. Instead, in a chiaroscuro cinema style that suggests morgue photos taken by Cecil Beaton, he presents the pair as stars of their own camp pageant, a sickly sweet deb ball, where the revelers dance all night on the bodies of their inferiors, then wake...
...question here is whether Clinton will really avoid Carter's mistakes, or whether Clinton's conciliatory nature will cause him to accommodate all his philosophically diverse advisers in the belief that he is smart enough to adjudicate among them. "He doesn't want to do everything," says Clinton's campaign-issues director, Bruce Reed. "He wants to know everything -- and from that comes a tendency to make most decisions himself...
...just rely on Marty Indyk, Michael Mandelbaum and Tony Lake for advice--as smart as they may be. Academics and policy experts may be bright, but a president needs to get people from many fields of knowledge too, i.e., medicine, religion, law, business and technology...
...such a radical step? "We were the only environment that was ready for a complete change. All they needed was a cowboy dumb enough to say he'd do it," says Rock. "America's oldest nameplate is going to become America's newest car company." But Rock is a smart enough cowboy to recognize that his challenge is a tall...