Word: gleams
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Sporting red suspenders, rolled-up sleeves and a distinctive gleam in his eye, Bloom occupied center stage sitting in a gold easy chair...
...poorly, especially now that America has become a nation of stock traders? An explanation is that Wall Street has exchanged its traditional role of follower of economic trends for that of economic pacesetter. Consider the way that the dotcom mania showered wealth on every jaunty entrepreneur with the gleam of an idea but not a clue about earnings. In the past, the stock market would rarely show its checkbook to a start-up sans profits. And now that Wall Street has been burned, the fear is that the current stock pullback could leave even companies with real potential starved...
...right. Sydney was buffed to a gleam for the Games, and a sparkling late-winter sun shone all that week. The "Today Show" and other countries' Today Shows set up by the Opera House to catch sunrises on the harbor and sunsets behind the bridge. Overhead, Qantas jets all in a row descended toward the airport at Botany Bay. Restaurants and hotels filled, athletes sprouted in multicolored warm-up suits, photo-op spots in the botanical garden drew queues. Gowings started moving Akubras briskly, and as the Opening Ceremonies got nearer and nearer, the Aussies perked up noticeably. That sunny...
Australia was clearly thrilled to be showing off like this. Sydney had been buffed to a gleam for the Games, and a sparkling late-winter sun shone all week. The Today show set up by the opera house to catch sunrises on the harbor and sunsets behind the bridge. Restaurants and hotels filled, athletes sprouted in multicolored warm-up suits, photo ops clogged the botanical gardens. The sunny phrase "no worries," a curious affirmation against doomfulness, was heard over and over, as was a new quintessentially Australian sentiment: " 'Ey, all we 'ave to do is beat Atlanta! Not a very...
...Australia was clearly thrilled to be showing off like this. Sydney had been buffed to a gleam for the Games, and a sparkling late-winter sun shone all week. The "Today" show set up by the opera house to catch sunrises on the harbor and sunsets behind the bridge. Restaurants and hotels filled, athletes sprouted in multicolored warm-up suits, photo ops clogged the botanical gardens. The sunny phrase "no worries," a curious affirmation against doomfulness, was heard over and over, as was a new quintessentially Australian sentiment: " 'Ey, all we 'ave to do is beat Atlanta! Not a very...