Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it comes down to the fact that there weren't a lot of smart hockey players our year," Drury said...
...pleasures, his entire persona an erogenous zone -- with an electrifying stage presence. He saw himself, though, as a Romantic poet trapped in a pop star's body and worked hard at punishing that body with all-life binges of alcohol, drugs and heavy sex. "I'm rich and famous, smart and pretty," he must have mused. "Now how can I screw it up?" He did so by speeding up the physical and mental decay that aging forces on mere mortals. Like his hero Rimbaud, he raced death to the finish line. When he died...
Suddenly, there he was, the only major participant in this most televised war in history who had remained off-camera. For weeks, the world had watched the nightly pyrotechnics over Baghdad, the battered allied pilots on Iraqi TV, Patriots rising to meet Scuds, the nose-camera view of smart bombs at work, the artificial twilight above the burning oil fields, top guns catapulting into the mist, even Saddam Hussein presiding over his Revolutionary Command Council. Only the frontline Iraqi soldier had stayed out of sight...
...good deal of time absorbing the new battlefield thinking that has emerged over the past two decades. The Pentagon, says Martin Binkin, a defense expert at the Brookings Institution, "literally rewrote the textbook on war. It's a new ball game in every way. The battle cry is 'Fight smart!' " The merits of that approach are written all over Operation Desert Storm...
...approval and domestic popularity are enough to make a war worth fighting. If it was, we might have invaded Lithuania last month. Before the U.S. gets involved in a foreign adventure, we must have a reasonable expectation of achieving our objectives with an acceptably low casualty count. Bush was smart enough to wage a winnable war. And he was smart enough to give his military commanders enough firepower to win it quickly, while minimizing allied losses...