Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, if you have to ask, it's because the rich are back to being different. Following a brief, unsatisfying fling with modesty in the early 1990s, they've renewed their lust for luxe and are making upscale stores the brightest spot on the dowdy U.S. retail scene...
...Avnet's brightest idea is to call on Stockard Channing, ace resuscitator of mediocre films (see her work in Smoke and To Wong Foo), who arrives mid-movie to perk things up. She's a local anchor who oozes compassion but, off-air, is so cool and hard you could skate on her. She meets Tally for a drink, asks, "Is that actually a banana daiquiri?" and acidly adds, "Spring Break, Lauderdale...
...that means Ben and if Ben is attached to Liz. . .we just can't have that." Voices rise, "Jenny said she'll go wherever Dan goes and she brings Sarah and if we have Dan then we have to deal with Sarah." AHHHHH!!!! This class of the best and brightest disintegrate into little clusters where miscommunication and hostile feelings are the only assumptions that can safely been made about anything. Why do we have to do this? What happens at all those other schools...
...remain the acceptable face of Irish republicanism. For the moment, Adams is still an important--and perhaps indispensable--part of the peace process. Says Alex Attwood, a Belfast city councilor representing a ward in Roman Catholic West Belfast: "Adams and his first- line managers are the best and the brightest. People may not like them, but they need to be sustained if we are going to secure peace...
...public service. In addition, the high visibility and persuasiveness of businesses which engage in the on-campus recruiting process, Curtis said, sways many students at schools like Harvard toward the private sector. While consulting, investing banking, and other types of firms have put a premium on aggressively pursuing the brightest emerging minds from the nation's top colleges, the public sector has not paralleled this effort...