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.
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 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.
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 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 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.
Aside from online, the one bright spot was department stores.
One bright spot in the Labor Department jobs release, at least, was the slight rise in both the labor force participation rate and employment-to-population ratio, the first increases since February.
One bright spot, even in the depths of this recession, has been the movie business, as films like the Twilight Saga, Avatar and a half-dozen or so IMAX releases have ignited box office numbers.
This makes the London mayoral election result one bright spot in a gloomy overall picture for the Conservatives, who are feeling the effect of voters' dissatisfaction over measures to tackle the country's large deficit.
Within information technology, the one bright spot has been network security and Perry says the companies to buy are Symantec (nasdaq: SYMC - news - people ) and Safenet (nasdaq: SFNT - news - people ), which has deals with the Department of Defense and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ).
Television remains the one relatively bright spot in traditional media, though its growth also remains far behind digital.
There is one possible bright spot hidden the weak employment numbers.
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