Word: glowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies finds the limelight, it's usually the gentle glow of scholarly achievement. For a while last spring, however, the Center found itself the unaccustomed subject of seering international scrutiny...
...bright glow is rising above Silicon Valley's gloomy horizon. In a computer industry plagued by layoffs and flat revenues, Sun Microsystems of Mountain View, Calif., has achieved phenomenal growth. Founded only four years ago, Sun boosted sales from $8 million in fiscal 1983 to $115 million in 1985. Over the same period, annual profits surged from $654,000 to $8.5 million. Run by Scott McNealy, 31, Andreas Bechtolsheim, 30, and William Joy, 31, a trio of workaholic wunderkinder, the company shows signs of staying power in a business in which success is often fleeting...
...hail, Crimson athletics--perpetually teetering on the cutting edge of sports fashion. Nonetheless, a few questions peek through the pervading glow...
This emotional argument ignores the evidence and misses the point. Unfortunately, democracy is a minority taste. The Founding Fathers in their Enlightenment glow certainly considered liberty a universal principle. They also considered the emerging U.S. as a model of liberty for the rest of the world. But they had no illusions about how easy it might be to establish democratic governments elsewhere. Jefferson questioned whether democracy could flourish in all circumstances, suggesting that it might be effective only at certain times and places where conditions allowed. Today in most parts of the world it does not exist...
...light at the end of every game--every loss, every victory--her earrings seemed to capture the sunlight and glow with her and her team's serenity...