Word: brightness
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Though frat boys and sorority girls are already a clannish lot, the investigators tried to magnify any team rivalry that might exist by hanging their house banners on opposite walls of the testing room, requiring the participants to wear house T shirts, and dividing the room with a bright line of blue tape. Just as the work sessions were about to begin, one member of each team was taken from the room and asked to perform a task that had nothing to do with the actual study. Those students were brought back in five minutes later and instructed to rejoin...
...might expect such confidence from a well-seasoned upperclassman—not a bright-eyed freshman from San Diego, Calif., especially one forced to adjust to a higher level of play as well as a new climate. Brown, however, exhibits tenacity far beyond her years...
...which teachers are laid off—as dictated by the California Education Code, teachers are fired based on seniority, so that the last hired are the first to go. This system of indiscriminately cutting from the bottom up means that schools are likely to lose many of their bright, young, and energetic teachers, to the detriment of their students...
Udelnaya is a sleepy town southeast of Moscow, full of muddy roads lined with brightly painted wooden houses. Behind a frozen stream there is one large brick building that looks a little out of place. Inside are hundreds of rows of jars exuding an unpleasant smell. They are full of Hirudo medicinalis, more commonly known as leeches. But few locals are turning up their noses at the presence of so many blood-sucking annelids. Leeches are the flourishing industry in Udelnaya, a bright spot in a Russian economy hurtling into recession...
...large companies, it is not really the job of the CEO to run the company. There are plenty of bright operational, financial, and legal executives. Business schools teach that CEOs are charged with looking at a company's future so that they can think strategically about how to position their firms for the world as it will be in five or ten years...