Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freeze in Decisions. For all the bad signs, there were also brighter portents. In a significant measurement of the effectiveness of the freeze, the Commerce Department announced that the overall rate of inflation dropped from an annual rate of 4% in the second quarter to 31% in the third quarter. And in September the consumer price index climbed by only .2%, or about half the rate of the previous six months. Meanwhile, New York's First National City Bank estimated that U.S. corporate profits after taxes in the third quarter climbed by 8% compared with the same period last...
...graduate education, and faculty research. He concluded that "the ends of education are among the most attractive in a flawed and highly ambiguous world" and that the University is a place "where the opportunities to be fully challenged and to do more good than harm are so much brighter than elsewhere...
...astronomers have been baffled by Jupiter's Great Red Spot. The larger-than-earth-sized blemish, which drifts mysteriously across the face of the solar system's biggest planet, sometimes covers an area 8,000 miles wide and 30,000 miles long. Occasionally it grows noticeably brighter; at other times it almost vanishes. Other than to speculate that the spot is caused by an unusual deviation in the planet's magnetic field or a physical irregularity somewhere below its atmosphere, scientists have long been at a loss to explain either the nature of the spot...
...ourselves," says James Durfee, president of the Carl Ally agency. He predicts that advertising will now concentrate on "creating a good feeling" for the product instead of making specific claims. As a result, the consumer may get less product information. Grey Advertising President Edward Meyer takes a brighter view: "Now that the facts will be on file, people will be less skeptical about...
...process of crustal assimilation to remove large volumes of waste material. The trenches may fill faster than the garbage can be ingested. New islands and reefs of curiously familiar material could be the result. Volcanoes could become smokestacks belching atmospheric pollutants on a scale never before imagined. On the brighter side, organic carbon under such conditions may be converted into huge quantities of diamond...