Word: brightest
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White will get the starting call at the shooting guard, rounding out an all-freshman backcourt. He has been one of the brightest spots on the team in this young season...
...pollution and degradation of this culture did not happen overnight, and neither will our ability to reclaim it and reform it happen overnight. It's going to take a good half-generation to turn things around. The church for two full generations has been taking its brightest and its best and saying to them, Be a pastor or be a missionary. It's time we took our brightest and our best and said, Be a lawyer, be a judge, be a Governor, be the dean of a university, be the editor of a newspaper. We're involved in a cultural...
...policy brings the U.S. in line with other nations, like Canada and Australia, that have long been luring the best and the brightest. "Virtually every other country reviews its immigrant applications based on skills," says former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, co-author of The Immigration Time Bomb. "We're the only country in the world that brings in whole generations of poor people every year." The Federal Government estimates that investor visas will generate $10 billion over the next five years. That sum will only be raised if at least 3,000 investors enter the country each year...
...Western-style competition have caused severe difficulties. The Bolshoi, among others, has seen its state subsidies go way down; at the same time, expenses have gone up, and the company's conservative and inefficient practices have been placed in a harsh new light. Moreover, many of the U.S.S.R.'s brightest young singers, now free to seek opportunities wherever they like, have chosen to sing mainly in the West. "Our problems here are very much the same ones this country faces today," says Bolshoi general director Vladimir Kokonin. "The country aspires to freedom and a decent way of life. We here...
...produces 70% of the coke reaching the U.S. today, according to the DEA, and 90% of the drug sold in Europe. The Cali godfathers have a virtual lock on the global wholesale market in the most lucrative commodity ever conceived by organized crime. The cartel is the best and brightest of the modern underworld: professional, intelligent, efficient, imaginative and nearly impenetrable. Says Robert Bonner, administrator of the DEA: "The Cali cartel is the most powerful criminal organization in the world. No drug organization rivals them today or perhaps any time in history...