Word: smarts
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...arguments for and against it. But the consensus is that the law will pass. Already, says Paul Knox, a wealth adviser at JPMorgan Private Bank, "there is a trickle of people who have decided they have to leave. The problem is that a trickle can become a flow. The smart people are always ahead of the curve, and there are some pretty smart people making the decision to move...
...salary. Their dinner table is loaded with such tasty holiday treats as lotus root, fresh shrimp and carp, and the hall is festively bedecked with red and gold banners. But Zang's sunburnt skin and his Mao suit and Lenin hat look slightly out of place in this smart Guangzhou hotel with its marble-lined lobby. And despite the generosity of his employer, he confesses, he'd rather be elsewhere - eating a traditional reunion feast with his family in Shanghe county, then maybe watching the New Year's Eve gala broadcast on China Central Television. "I really wanted to make...
...respectively. “We can learn a lot from our opponents,” freshman Agnes Sibilski said. “They come on the court and they just grind and grind. Playing matches always shows you what you need to work on. Smart players will always take advantage of your weaknesses.” At No. 1 doubles, Schofield and Zubori, ranked No. 9 in the country in doubles, defeated the pairing of junior Beier Ko and Sibilski. However, the duo of sophomores Elizabeth Brook and Laura Peterzan and the pairing of captain Stephanie Schnitter and junior Catriona...
...country, putting most of the citizenry in a perpetually sour mood. Survival is a glum game of avoiding or appeasing the apparatchiks. The black market, for shampoo and Kent cigarettes, is on each street corner, in every college dormitory. That's where we meet Otilia (Annamaria Marinca), a smart, illusionless student, and her pretty, mopey roommate Gabita (Laura Vasiliu). Gabi is despondent for a reason: she's pregnant and is about to try to get, with Otilia's help, an abortion - illegal at the time in Romania...
...Here you have a perfectly distilled three-character drama. Otilia is the smart one, the audience's surrogate, endangered by the rough Mr. Bebe and, even more so, by her dithery roommate. Gabi has constantly lied to Otilia or Bebe about almost everything: the meeting place, the money, certainly the extent of her pregnancy. She says it's two months, then three; you'll have to guess the actual time. Perhaps Gabi is afraid that no one will help her if she tells the truth; perhaps lying has got this pretty young woman this far, and, now, in this condition...