Word: upbeat
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...Labour. And to judge from the waterfall of "bold, radical" policy ideas that spouted during the week from baby-faced ministers[an error occurred while processing this directive] such as David Miliband and James Purnell, the party's next generation of leaders has plenty of steam. That was the upbeat side of Labour's annual conference last week in Manchester. But its evil twin lurked close by. Delegates seemed afflicted with a cocktail of maladies that until recently were Conservative diseases: feuding, plotting, depression, exhaustion. Almost 10 years in power is a long time, and it has dulled Labour...
Also, while overall fundraising was technically up last year, inflation-adjusted fundraising actually fell slightly. So even though a Harvard press release touted the University’s “strong fundraising results,” the real story isn’t quite so upbeat...
...lecturer, but the class offers an interesting perspective on a difficult problem. Inexplicably (or, perhaps, rather explicably), the number of sociology concentrators in the class of 2008 is about half that of the class of 2007. Nevertheless, the department is doing its best to appear trendy and upbeat with guest lecturers and events, as well as the appearance of Sociology hoodies (available through the department website, for all you nerds out there). If the number of concentrators continues to decrease, sources speculate the catalog may grow to include Sociology booty shorts and thongs. Sociology...
...each night was just another chore on Kriston Feldpausch's daily to-do list until she picked up a flyer in her son's cubby last spring for My Girlfriend's Kitchen, a meal-assembly parlor where busy moms get together and make tasty food for their families over upbeat music and nonstop chitchat. "It's like a night out," says Feldpausch, who lives in Midlothian, Va. "It's fun; you always meet somebody...
...Crimson remained upbeat in the face of the defeats, however...