Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bill was exceptionally bright, even for Harvard. He was brighter than most professors I had. Almost everyone who met him had difficulties dealing with him. Living with Bill had a negative effect on my performance. I felt inferior. Like when I had brainstorms, ideas I thought were really special. I would go talk to Bill about them. He would give me arguments for and against starting from the 12th century. It was demoralizing...
...concerned with these matters, however, than with making bad broad jokes: when some students play hooky and go to a Chicago zoo, a gorilla hurls his dirt onto one of them; on the run from a couple of guys looking to do him harm, one of Cooley's brighter hopes hides out in a bathroom where a young lady sits screaming on the toilet. The movie does have two energetic performances by Glynn Turman and Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, but they are just about overrun. One of the Cooley kids takes off for Hollywood to become a successful screenwriter...
...second-quarter performance. Steel profits were down 26% from the first quarter, utilities 8%, and aluminum and other nonferrous metal producers 11%. Airlines flew in the red because of high jet-fuel costs and an un-economically low percentage of filled seats. Overall, though, the Citibank study painted a brighter second-quarter earnings picture than many experts had expected. Says Citibank Economist Robert Lewis: "The upturn in earnings is further proof that the economy has begun to bounce back...
...Brighter Than a Thousand Suns...
...brighter side of the ledger, some cities have managed to avoid trouble. Pittsburgh Mayor Pete Flaherty has pared the city's work force from 7,200 to 5,400 in five years, partly through attrition. St. Louis' 13,000 employees wisely decided to help the city out of its pinch by not pushing for wage increases this year...