Ireland was a benighted place when his political career began, and a bright one when he died.
Sadly the situation shines a light, be it a less bright one, on a much bigger issue.
But VJ says, no, there is a future in this business, even a bright one, and proceeds to make his case.
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For, while previously I saw time as a stretch of terrain that had to be covered, with the future as a distant prospect, hopefully a bright one, and never boring at any rate, now it is interwoven with our life here and in a totally different way.
At a glance, everything looks as bright as one of Walgreen's all-night stores.
One bright spotK: The storm hasn't resulted in a significant increase in gasoline prices.
However, there was one bright ray of hope for small investors in current financial reform.
One bright spot in the company's operations has been its Asian businesses, such as Yahoo!
The one bright spot was progress on China's entry into the World Trade Organization.
The one bright side is that Denmark has a smaller payroll tax, borne by the employer.
One bright spot has been asset-management stocks, and two in particular look especially interesting.
That said, the Embraer deal is one bright spot in an otherwise dreary period.
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However, one bright light at the end of the tunnel, whichever way you see it?
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However, one bright spot on the horizon is the return of Cornelia Zicu.
One bright spot is that large corporations are getting more active in startup investing.
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For Britain's private-health insurers, that leaves company-sponsored plans as one bright spot in a dull market.
It hit me one bright day while scanning the candidates competing for the title in our garden.
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General Motors may be teetering on bankruptcy, but the one bright spot has been sales in China.
One bright spot was manufacturing jobs, which rose by 37, 000, led by the auto and auto-parts industries.
One bright spot: John Ingram got a condolence call after the FTC rejection.
There was one bright spot Friday: Many residents had ready access to water.
One bright spot: MBf's education ventures, which include Taylor's College and Garden School.
Indeed, amid the gloom about microbicides and vaccines, circumcision is the one bright spot in the field of AIDS prevention.
One bright light amid the darkness is retail sales, which rose by 17% in real terms in the year to October.
One bright spot has been the inflation picture: the central bank forecasts 10%-13% this year, and private projections, 18% (1998: over 60%).
The one bright spot has been in supplying farmers with agricultural lime, concrete, asphalt, sands and aggregates, for building sheds and yards, for example.
One bright idea is to renegotiate contracts now to lock teachers into paying union dues after the right-to-work law goes into effect in March.
One bright spot should have been sales of the iPod digital music player, which Apple breaks out in the "peripherals and other hardware" category.
One bright spot: TSA has opened its PreCheck program to international flights, giving expedited screening to trusted travelers enrolled in the program for overseas trips.
One bright note was the Institute for Supply Management nonmanufacturing index.
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