Word: brightness
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...gotten a head start on naming the 2010s. In a contest that garnered more than 3,500 entries--including "Tenties" and Teenies"--News.com.au awarded nearly $2,000 to the person who suggested "One-ders." After the dreary decade we've suffered through, the judges said, the moniker's "bright-eyed optimism" was a welcome change...
...able to serve Harvard over the years,” Houghton is quoted in the release. “I believe that today, under the leadership of our distinguished president and with support from our other constituencies, the future of our ‘fair Harvard’ is bright indeed...
...first time in his 19 years of conducting Christmas consumer surveys, to revise his holiday sales estimate. In early November Beemer predicted a 2.9% drop in retail sales for the holidays. Now he's forecasting just a 1.2% drop in overall holiday sales. "Electronics have been a big bright spot," he says...
...highways, prisons, schools, immigration and unemployment. The legislature and the governor are openly hostile to each other, and the electorate is disgusted with both of them. (Their approval ratings are 18% and 28%, respectively.) This state of affairs is alternately described as the end of civilization or America's bright future, depending on whom you ask. Driving around the state, you'd never know that California was on the brink of apocalypse: the sun is shining and the lawns are bright green, even in the desert, so it's as tempting to believe the optimists as it is the hysterics...
...able to serve Harvard over the years,” Houghton is quoted in the release. “I believe that today, under the leadership of our distinguished president and with support from our other constituencies, the future of our ‘fair Harvard’ is bright indeed...