Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hotel window in Kinshasa looking across the Congo river to Brazzaville, capital of the other country called the Congo. A prosperous, thriving nation just three months ago, that Congo has fallen back into mindless civil war, and as the latest cease-fire was broken, Museveni could see the bright red tracers of bullets arcing across the otherwise darkened city. "Clowns," he muttered. "Must Africa remain in a permanent state of transition...
...flying somewhere around the country, and there will be 13 by 1998. That's almost double the blimpage of a year ago. Most of them are made by the American Blimp Corp. of Hillsboro, Ore., which has designed a blimpette, that is, one so small (130 ft.), so bright (it's interior lighted) and so cheap (about $1.75 million) that four blimps circled the Super Bowl this year. Last Monday the company introduced a larger, Goodyear-size blimp (rented by Sanyo, it's flying over San Diego), a 10-passenger dirigible it hopes to use for sight-seeing trips. Blimps...
...WHAT HAPPENS] Unstable taxi driver Jerry Fletcher has his eyes taped open and a bright light shone in them; then he's submerged in water and nearly drowned...
...reflect the short, tough speech patterns of workers in the car industry. "In the world of automotive head lamps," Walton writes, "you had your forces of light and your forces of darkness, that was how Kim Peterson saw it. And Peterson was a light force. He liked bright head lamps....Truck head lamps were his idea of great lamps...
Although the handover will most certainly produce changes and unfold new realities, one thing is easy to predict: the people of Hong Kong, perhaps the territory's most valuable and reliable asset, will not change and won't lose their unique energy, courage and vision for a bright tomorrow. And in the eyes of many, this might be enough to assure Hong Kong's future success. In the city of Lo Wu, at the border with China, the ultramodern train station is packed with masses of Chinese from the territory going to the mainland for a weekend or a short...