Word: pleasants
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...truth is, you had it easy this year. It wasn't supposed to be this pleasant, and in the end it wasn't supposed to be this much fun. After an endless barrage of millennium-eve, Bruckheimer-intense previews, what you got was a 180-min. Robert Redford-directed golf film with a surprise ending...
...afford not to do it. This has been Bush's way of softening the fiscal ground ever since the fall. The economy is slowing down. Consumer confidence is fading, the "wealth effect" of the rising stock markets is a pleasant memory, and the best way to head off a recession - consumer spending accounts for two-thirds of U.S. economic activity - is to put some spending money back in the people's pockets...
Trailing the play, Catamount left-winger Bryson Busniuk slapped the rebound out of the air into the net. Referee Joel Dupree allowed the short-handed goal, much to the shock of the Harvard players and even to the pleasant surprise of the Vermont crowd...
Where to go? What retirees tend to want most is--no surprise--a pleasant climate. Fortunately, they can find sunny skies in countries where the cost of living is low, such as Belize, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua and Ecuador. Some retirees feel comfortable with a large expatriate community, which they can find in nearby Mexico. Many are lured back to places they have worked or visited--or to the land of their ancestors, say, France, Italy or Greece. Some Americans are braving the Irish weather or escaping to the wide-open spaces of countries like Canada or New Zealand. John...
...also provides a base for exploring the Mediterranean, lower Alps and Provencal countryside. Retirees flock to Aix in part because of the pleasant climate but also because there are two hospitals and 23 medical centers. There are also 10 tennis clubs, five golf courses and eight riding stables in the vicinity, as well as the recently renovated Thermes Sextius spa, located above the excavated foundation of the old Roman baths. An "olive-tree route" guides visitors to mills and presses at some of the area's 5,435 olive producers...