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Word: smartly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been an invaluable political asset, rescuing Bush's faltering campaign by masterminding a victory in the New Hampshire primary. But he lacked any experience in the clannish world of Washington and was so relentlessly abrasive that one wag dubbed him "Morton Downey Jr. with a Ph.D." The smart money gave him at most a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Bad John Sununu | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...leader Bob Michel for not supporting the President with sufficient enthusiasm, moving Michel to note that "sometimes we have to remind Governor Sununu that this is not the New Hampshire legislature." Democratic Senator Tim Wirth of Colorado says what many Washington insiders feel: Sununu "thinks he's the only smart guy in town. He shows little respect for anyone else's intelligence or point of view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Bad John Sununu | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

MIAMI BLUES. Alec Baldwin and Jennifer Jason Leigh are two smart, engaging actors, and they work beautifully as mismatched souls in the down-market world of Miami vice. Writer-director George Armitage illuminates this rogue comedy with stylish fun and splashy violence. A definite don't miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: May 7, 1990 | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...endangered contractors will be those whose business is almost purely defense work. Northrop, the lead contractor on the B-2 bomber, counted on military sales for 92% of its 1989 revenues of $5.2 billion. Besides the Stealth bomber (price for each plane: $540 million), the company builds so- called smart weapons systems, guidance modules for MX missiles and other military hardware. After losing $80.5 million last year, the company cut costs by selling its Gulfstream IV corporate jet in January and its glass-and-steel headquarters tower in Century City, Calif., for $218 million in March. If congressional proposals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biting The Bullets | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...complainers and whiners. "Radcliffe women are ugly dogs," I hear. "Too smart, you can't trick them...

Author: By Betty Hung, | Title: 'Find A Date? At Harvard?' | 4/28/1990 | See Source »

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