Word: pleasanter
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...billion in debt and falling demand for its products. The stock dropped 90% from its peak, then plunged another 65% last week. For a finale the company announced a $183 million loss and a restructuring plan that may cut 40,000 jobs. This convalescence will be neither short, pleasant nor guaranteed. INDICATORS Sultans Of Spin Months after U.S. investigations began, Britain's Financial Services Authority launched an inquiry into "spinning" - the investment bank practice of doling out shares in hot IPOs to win more business from top executives. The first sleuthing step was writing firms to ask if they routinely...
...tough course in pleasant weather, the narrow fairways of the Links at Gettysburg were compounded with the obstacle of standing water...
...Hopefully, it will make every Harvard student’s transition to and stay in college more pleasant and rewarding,” said Boleslaw Z. Kabala ’03, director of the project, in an e-mail...
...gyrus apparently threw the delicate feedback system out of synch--creating a state of neural chaos that was exacerbated when she moved her eyes and body. Whether shamans achieve the same state through meditation is impossible to say. But if they do, they have certainly found a more pleasant way to get there. --By Jeffrey Kluger
...know that today heaven is a much more organized and much more pleasant place than it was before,” she said...