Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...neighborhood: his mother died when he was five; his father, a first- generation gang member, has spent the past five years in prison; his older brother, 17, is also in the gang. What little care Ducc has received came from his grandmother. Ducc happens to be bright -- smart enough, in fact, to be discovered by the I Have a Dream Foundation, which selects gifted ghetto kids and pays their college tuition if they complete high school. Ducc, however, hasn't gone to class much since the fourth grade...
Henry, good-humored and alert, is not so very different from Akbar, the smart-alecky mujahedin boy who in the battle zone of Afghanistan grew closer to his comrades than to his father. In Henry's insular world, his homies are his only family. It is his enemies who keep changing. Despite designer sneakers and all the food he needs, Henry is far poorer than Akbar. He has no cause, no purpose to his fighting, no dream of redemption in another life...
Actually, this job is not a smart move for Bok. He could use a change. Odds...
Despite the cigarette industry's growing disrepute, tobacco-company shares have generally been a smart investment in recent years. But now cigarette stocks face a challenge not unlike the campaign against companies doing business in South Africa. In a letter that came to light last week, Harvard University President Derek Bok disclosed that the school has divested its holdings in tobacco companies because their products "create a substantial and unjustified risk of harm to other human beings." At the City University of New York, trustees voted last week to dump its $3.5 million worth of tobacco stocks. The C.U.N.Y. divestiture...
Sununu went to M.I.T., where he earned a doctorate and founded an engineering firm. He met a young woman named Nancy Hayes, a tall, fair-haired, Irish American from Boston College. She found him smart and funny and "very sure for his age of where he was going." They married...