Word: pleasants
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...appointment, which came as a “pleasant surprise” to Putnam, recognizes his “high international standing” as a foreign scholar in the humanities and social sciences...
...errand down the road from their Easthampton home to the local Hess market in Wainscott to pick up the newspaper. (This being the Hamptons, summer playground for Manhattan's elite, the Hess station looks more like a Starbucks, but the gas pumps give it away.) The Grubmans were always pleasant on these weekend jaunts, insists a Hess employee, who asked to remain anonymous. But each time they came, he notes, they would park their car (sometimes a Jaguar, sometimes an SUV) in the same spot, right outside the front door, the one labeled for the handicapped...
...traders have tasted success, and the ante has been upped. Which leaves it to the bellwethers among all those companies to keep feeding the expectations beast with more pleasant surprises - surprises which will now be that much harder to pull...
...January I had a very pleasant 2 1/2-hour lunch with the commissioner, and things seemed to be going pretty well. Early on, I actually thought we were going to get approval. We made our case [in a Feb. 26 meeting in Brussels], and we went back to the hotel. I thought we had a shot. Then we came back at 6:30, and they said that they had thought about our arguments, that they made some sense, but that the commission had to go to phase two [of the investigation]. I was naturally hopeful that my persuasive tone would...
...guessed it: Earnings - and the corporate earnings picture for the quarter just past and the quarter to come - are as lousy as ever, but Wall Street's expectations have finally bottomed to the point that a $232 million loss can be a pleasant surprise. In a TIME.com Q&A, TIME personal finance columnist Daniel Kadlec explains why that's the best news he's heard in a while - and why nobody watching at home should try to take it to the bank for a while...