Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think [development research asks] a fascinating set of questions," she said. "I'm now a member of a team of people that are pulling together some of the brightest minds at Harvard...
...remiss if I were to fail to mention one last symbol of power that I encounter daily on Park Avenue. Each day, as I wade through piles of second class mail, I am beset with magazines from Harvard, Yale and Princeton. The best and brightest of the past few generations are living well and are inundated with mail from their alma maters. Sadly, too many of the Harvard alumni show some sort of interest in me only when they learn that I go to their alma mater. Only then do I cease to be an automaton, only then do they...
...media frenzy that follows their death. While those celebrities who die young--Diana, JFK, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Kurt Cobain--remain forever young and full of promise in the public imagination, tragically, they have already left the stage when the applause for them is loudest and the spotlight brightest...
Wall Street may also be starting to wonder. After a long run as one of the brightest stars in the Dow firmament, the company's stock has slipped 10% in the past month. The good news is that Disney remains the world's most beloved entertainment brand name--a kind of profitability triple threat that uses movies, theme parks and merchandise to turn every hit into a volcano of revenues. But some analysts are worried that its fabled pre-eminence in the animation arena has eroded since its Lion King days and that its theme parks face newly ferocious rivals...
...brain drain" is certainly a familiar concept to the folks at home. Nebraska has started giving their brightest students generous financial packages (like the ones the top football players get) in an attempt to keep them around for college, increasing the chances they will stay in the state permanently...