We should be getting a lot smarter about using infrastructure in order to minimise the amount of dumping, especially when ports are operating at 50% capacity on the reef".
"I will leave all that wondrous stuff on foreign affairs to those who are on a vastly better pay scale and smarter than I am," Joyce said.
So we don't question whether or not Chicago needs to become smarter or savvy-er in its use of technology, it just simply is the only way we'll be able to meet the demands of our residents".
Higher-spec devices such as smartphones and tablets can perform the same functions in more user-friendly ways, for instance through multimedia apps, and can also draw on a wider range of sensors and capacities – eg accelerometers, GPS and camera – to generate richer data and smarter interventions.
"Looking back, it would have been probably, you know, smarter to have used two devices," Clinton said.
"Here was this fellow the same age as me who was 10 times smarter and more articulate, was a huge success socially and had strong opinions about writers like Tennyson, which he could back up with a clever gag.
There is a new breed of students in town and they're looking for accommodation just a little smarter than your average digs.
Things needed to be bigger, faster, smarter; more of everything but for less time, money and security.
Britons are working much smarter and less hard than in the 1950s, though at present output per hour worked is 16% lower than in France, 18% lower than in Germany and 23% lower than in the United States.
It also bought US producer Zoo, whose credits include Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, remade in the UK as Sky One's Are You Smarter Than A 10-Year-Old?
It probably would not happen that way today, when market failure is even more evident and the need for active government – "smarter" as Mandelson would say – is so obvious.
