Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hockey games never seemed all that complicated when I watched the Islanders on television or the Harvard team in Bright Center. Somehow, sitting high above most spectators in the Boston Garden press box lent an aura of mystery to the whole affair...
Women's hockey hosts Beanpot final, Bright Hockey Center...
...contrast to the unemployment picture, the inflation forecast remains exceptionally bright. Most European countries can expect price rises of no more than 3% to 5% in 1987. But that prediction assumes the continued willingness of unions to accept moderate wage increases. In France, the conservative government of Premier Jacques Chirac has recently had to face strikes by public sector employees that interrupted train and electric service. Though the strikers eventually accepted Chirac's offer of 2% to 3% pay hikes and went back to work, the confrontation was a sharp reminder of latent tensions on the labor front...
Continuing bad news on the international trade front, and the passion that it arouses, had finally made Administration action politically unavoidable. Last week the Commerce Department revealed that the trade deficit for 1986 totaled $169.8 billion, a record. The only bright light in the dismal picture was the fact that the monthly deficit in December was only $10.7 billion, down dramatically from the $19.2 billion recorded a month earlier. That may be a sign, though not a definitive one, that the continuing slide of the U.S. dollar against the Japanese yen and the West German mark, which makes U.S. products...
...weekends, anxiously awaiting exam results, going for picnics in the countryside. The narrator himself appears to have been a regular little scamp who delighted in gambling with rubber bands, spraying his friends with Pepsi at his elder sister's wedding and lining up with his schoolmates in a bright new uniform to greet a foreign dignitary with the cry of "Long life to Jacqueline Kennedy...