Russia is, of course, much poorer than the United States and, in even the rosiest scenarios, it will remain so for many decades.

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It was admittedly not the rosiest of outlooks despite my own first hand knowledge of some of the great things that this generation has already accomplished to date.

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Internet advertising offers the rosiest outlook.

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