Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recognize that as a politically smart move and accept it for that," said Ellen J. Zucker, president of the Boston chapter of the National Organization for Women. "It is unfortunate, however, that it was not by his own moral instincts," she added...
That was abundantly clear during the Persian Gulf war, when the Times won widespread praise for running hard-hitting stories that clashed with upbeat military assessments. The paper was the first to reveal that most of the munitions used in the war were not smart bombs but unguided ones that all too often missed their target. It also disclosed possible defects in the Bradley fighting vehicle and chronicled a Navy admiral's stepped-up efforts to weed out lesbians. Moreover, at the peak of the crisis, the Times had the financial muscle to put 17 correspondents in the gulf -- five...
...politics, however, you just carry on, trusting to the short memory of the audience. Well, maybe not this time. For once, an issue was settled. For once, the vaunted sagacity of Sam Nunn, the angry isolationism of Pat Buchanan, the "street"-smart Arabism of the Middle East experts have been put to the test: an encounter with reality. The results are not pretty, and the tested don't like...
...unbelievably varied population at this place because people here are so smart and so opinionated that their differences are very strongly expressed," Moses says...
...bitchy Monica. When downcast, Maggie does not lash out but retreats to her room, where yet another chapter ends with quiet tears or staring at the ceiling. She is someone waiting to be -- a writer is hinted, maybe even a columnist. Quindlen's flaw is one of meticulousness: the smart energy of her journalist's voice is missing. But surely she knows that good novels have been written at kitchen tables...