Word: solid
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...book stand was originally intended to be a means to support his family, O’Brien said he had hoped that the business could also give other homeless people an opportunity to become self-reliant.“The basic plan behind that book stand is still solid,” O’Brien said. “My business plan was in three years to have six tables and 15 to 20 low-income homeless people working there, spread throughout Cambridge and Boston.”In his pursuit of public service, O’Brien even...
Monday sees the arrival of the Chinese lunar New Year and the onset of the Year of the Ox. But Shanghai residents who had been counting on the bovine astrological sign to usher in a bull market are likely to be disappointed. Contrary to its placid and solid reputation, this year's ox is an altogether different beast, say soothsayers in China's financial capital...
...Seeing the Fluorescent Light Thank you, TIME, for giving us solid reasons to be hopeful on the crucial energy issue [Jan. 12]. With incentives for energy efficiency, the economy would hum with millions of local projects requiring little or no government planning. Moreover, by choosing a relatively low-tech policy that the world could readily copy, we would at last become leaders in climate protection - and in rejecting the needless and dangerous expansion of nuclear power. Egan O'Connor, San Francisco...
...Seeing the Fluorescent Light Thank you, TIME, for giving us solid reasons to be hopeful on the crucial energy issue [Jan. 12]. With incentives for energy efficiency, the economy would hum with millions of local projects requiring little or no government planning. Moreover, by choosing a relatively low-tech policy that the world could readily copy, we would at last become leaders in climate protection - and in rejecting the needless and dangerous expansion of nuclear power. Egan O'Connor, San Francisco...
...great justice to the Tony Award-winning musical and served as an exciting preview for the film version (directed by Rob Marshall of Chicago fame) set to premiere in December 2009. “Nine” was good, old-fashioned entertainment, and with catchy melodies and solid performances by leading cast members, a midlife crisis has never been quite so entertaining...