"I was always one of these kids who had the smart back-answer in school - a right hard-faced, cheeky young man, " he told Roy Plomley on a 1972 edition of Desert Island Discs.

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Brook and Watkins are way to smart to think the answer lies in the academy, but they seemed to write just that.

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The company is pinning big hopes on the XPS One, its smart (if tardy) answer to the elegant iMac desktop.

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On the contrary, the concrete answer to how we define smart-grid investments will be resolved by every state utility commission when they evaluate utilities request to recover investment costs.

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The results: only about one-third of the utility call centers contacted could answer all the questions about the smart grid and smart meters.

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The smart thing is to figure out how to answer them better than most other candidates to increase your chance of getting the job.

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All these smart people are disagreeing, and I don't know the answer.

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The update to Google's search application for the iPhone, which Apple will release through its App Store software distribution service for the smart phone, will allow users to ask a question and get an answer from the Mountain View, Calif.

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