Word: rosier
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...those who don't make the effort will regret it; and those who do will find that, with rare exceptions, every moment of the show is worth it. In the hands of these skillful performers, The Mikado comes up as funny as it was a century ago, and looking rosier than ever
...pretty depressing picture for environmentalists, then? Not entirely. Once you accept that Kyoto is going to be primarily an agreement for industrialized nations, things start to look a little rosier ? or greener. Al Gore's instruction to his negotiators to show "greater flexibility" does seem to be reaping rewards: While the U.S. delegation once wouldn't go a single percentage point below 1990 carbon dioxide levels, they're now calling reports of 2 percent below "an understatement." So a "modest achievement," in Estrada's words, does seem close ? and Senate ratification is a battle Gore et al can fight another...
...education expenses paid through special investment accounts. House Democrats contend the bill is a classic Republican sell-out to the rich, while falling $4 billion short of the education-related tax breaks promised to the White House in the balanced budget deal. Democratic lawmakers, however, take a somewhat rosier view of the Republican tax agenda in the Senate, due for a vote on Friday. The Senate bill, with tax savings of $77 billion over the next five years, would broaden the $500 per child tax credit to low-income families and use income-indexed reductions in capital gains to target...
...method of personal problem resolution and the so-called "cult of victim-hood," to stop complaining about how tough their lot is, get their respective chins up and just deal. "Life is difficult," as the book's mantra claims, but from Week 663, the view is probably a lot rosier...
...will become obsolete...that economic upheaval will create wholesale unemployment... These are legitimate concerns. Entire professions and industries will fade. But new ones will flourish...The net result is that more gets done, raising the overall standard of living in the long run." Maybe, just maybe, the future is rosier than we think...