Word: outsmarted
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...TRIED TO OUTSMART ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN...
...will be sitting down with revamped aid applications, about to be issued, to figure out a host of revised rules that take effect Jan. 1. In many cases, the goal will be to look poorer on paper than they really are. Just how unethical is it, they wonder, to outsmart a system they feel is itself unfair? Parents contend that they are penalized if they save for college or their children take part-time jobs, since such savings reduce the amount of aid they can qualify for. Families who rent their homes may now appear just as rich on paper...
Arguing with nature's foes isn't that easy. Timber industry executives are no dummies. They try to outsmart their opponents by claiming they're better for the environment than the environmentalists. Tisdale quotes a pamphlet issued by the Caterpillar company--manufacturer of bulldozers and cranes needed to remove the Northwest's oldest trees--as an example of this absurd attempt to fool those opposed to the clearcutting: "The Facts Say: Forests do not necessarily improve with age. Decaying stands lack the food resources animals require. Density of old stands blocks sunlight, discouraging new growth...