Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about it?" asks Shepard Stone, former director of the Aspen Institute in West Berlin. "The U.S. is one of the greatest trading powers in the world. So is Japan. I know a lot of people who don't like the Americans or the Japanese. But it's smart statesmanship to work with reality. The Germans have behaved well in the European Community and the world...
These academic distractions can ruin the entertainment. The lovers' talk is smart, witty and direct -- an eavesdropper's fantasy. The posterotic mood is sophisticated; the mature pair give each other plenty of latitude and genuine affection. There are other voices in other rooms: a Czech woman and her husband, who accuses Philip of making him a cuckold. More confusion and explanations...
Okay, so here's this by-now tightlyknit group of people who finally think they've got it together, going out on a stage and exposing themselves (for the actors, as we've heard, is naked), and in comes this smart-ass dandy with a little notebook--this peer--who wasn't at any of those rehearsals, who hasn't put in any time, who can sit comfortably in a chair, scribbling away, and who, with a few sneering phrases, can choose to mock and malign everything that took two months to build. No wonder you hate the critic, even...
Trump made a smart decision when he let Griffin fight him for Resorts. By losing, he ended up winning. That's the "Art of the Deal." In the Soviet Union, the only difference is that the land masses are larger...
...road. Throwing America's weight around, they reason, could only make the transition to a Europe inevitably dominated by a united Germany even more difficult to manage. In another time, a similar posture was called appeasement. So far, at least, the Bush-Baker policy can be viewed as smart politics, as another effort -- to borrow Baker's words -- toward trying to get allies and opponents "to operate on America's terms, so that you can then do whatever you determine it is in your interests to do." Given the U.S.'s diminishing economic position relative to Japan and Germany...