Word: vibrant
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...billboard: Dubai's leader, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum. The sheik has been rumored to have suffered significant health problems from the strain brought on by the emirate's economic woes. The billboard is meant to belie those rumors; it shows the sheik, 59, looking sharp, vibrant and healthier than ever. Behind his picture is a simple caption in Arabic: "We don't wait for things to happen, we make them happen." And if you want to say otherwise, Dubai doesn't want to hear...
...This reputation, couched in the irreproachable quotations of Founding Fathers from Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Franklin, has directly led to desperate calls by otherwise cool-headed individuals to save a business model that successfully marketed itself as the sole producer of reliable truth in an otherwise highly competitive and vibrant economy...
What was this city like before the soldiers arrived? People didn't want to go outside. Most people stayed at home; most parents didn't want their kids to go to parties. Our city normally has vibrant night life, and that all but stopped for most of the past year...
...want to see the automobile industry be very vibrant going forward. Eighty percent of the value of a car is with the suppliers, and our suppliers throughout the United States also service GM and Chrysler. So it's very important, since we're so interdependent, that all of us move forward together...
...battered but never dies. America isn't going to expire either. But unlike him, we will be chastened and begin behaving more wisely. For years, enthusiasts for unfettered capitalism have insisted that the withering away of enterprises and entire industries is a healthy and necessary part of a vibrant, self-correcting economic system; now, more than at any time since Joseph Schumpeter popularized the idea of creative destruction in 1942, we must endure the shocking and awesome pain of that metamorphosis. After decades of talking the talk, now we're all obliged to walk the walk...