Word: pleasanter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dread looking at Wall Street tomorrow. It's not going to be a pleasant sight," Senate majority leader Harry Reid said with a twisted smile, both hands gripping the top of the lectern on the Senate floor late Thursday evening, before a compromise plan passed by the House on Wednesday went down to predictable defeat on the Senate floor by a vote of 52 to 35 (failing to meet the 60-vote threshold to cut off a filibuster). The last time Congress failed to pass a bailout plan that most had assumed was a done deal, the Dow Jones industrial...
...cooperativeness of the nation's military, which has a long history of interrupting democracy in the country, has been a pleasant surprise. Just half a year ago, the international community and Dhaka's civil society looked at the armed forces, including army chief Gen. Moeen Uddin Ahmed, with a degree of apprehension. During emergency rule, dissidents were arrested, journalists muzzled and political assembly was banned. A wing of the military intelligence was accused by prominent human rights groups of torturing activists. Moeen himself made troubling statements about the efficacy of democratic rule in a country as turbulent as Bangladesh...
...Schwartz himself is not shy about defending his motives.“It’s kind of rude not to say ‘hi’ to people to begin with,” he said. “It makes your life a lot more pleasant [if you do].”“This is who I’ve been since 13—precocious,” he said.But after a CEB-organized Pep Rally featuring the popular remix-artist Girl Talk came to a premature end due to crowd control issues this...
...hard time empathizing with her complaint. As an American student teaching English, I had transformative cultural experiences, both pleasant and unpleasant, on a daily basis. I had made many local friends and probably spoke English less than half of the time. At first I thought her situation was an individual problem—that some people had trouble connecting with a foreign culture because they were less outgoing and adventurous. However, the real problem is that the structure of study abroad programs isolates students from the native culture...
...magnate Zhu Mengyi has given away $160 million in the past five years (and the octogenarian entrepreneur Yu Pengnian has set aside well over twice that for the provision of cataract operations). But the One Foundation is not about billionaires. It is about a celebrity who has forsworn a pleasant life of premieres and parties, and the ordinary people who support him with their pennies. It is for them, perhaps, that Li places an almost neurotic stress on the One Foundation's "transparency" and "professionalism." He says he wants to run the organization "like a listed company" and make...