Sometimes there were happy calls about jobs: a cat-food ad that paid bills, a touring company that never made it to Indiana.
The Games rumbles along with a second shaved here or there, happy faces on the podium and solemn ones not on it, but mostly what is on display is a vacouousness that seldom reveals or even acknowledges the real passion of competing and winning or losing.
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"There are a lot of happy memories there for six young kids making their first team start and a couple of others who came on late in the game, " said Dalglish.
And there were folks in my party who were not happy, and there were folks in the Republican Party who were not happy.
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The outsourcing of local-government services is big business, and there are many happy relationships.
As the grim search continued at the school, there was some happy news at a home nearby.
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On the New York stock exchange, there may be happy smiles to greet a new record in the Dow.
Clearly there is a happy balance here, but the current levels of investor pessimism appear to focus on a worst-case scenario.
There have been happy stories about people having their laptops stolen and then activating their cameras remotely to catch the thieves.
There he filmed Happy Together, which details the love-hate relationship between Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung, two of Hong Kong's biggest heartthrobs.
"There is no happy end with their approach, " Sato told CNN.
When it comes to brain surgery, however, there are no happy little accidents -- and let's face it, Bob Ross would've been a horrible surgeon.
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And for every traveller who has been disappointed in a destination upon arrival, there is a happy visitor in Venice, where the city looks exactly as it is supposed to.
There was a happy and relaxed atmosphere in the household on that sunny Sunday in the house and Aamir's father was singing when his mother noticed someone at the door.
There, a happy gig in a pub leaves him with a stowaway on his return trip to Edinburgh: the chambermaid from his hotel, a waiflike girl who becomes, in the city, his surrogate daughter.
"There was many times my life was at risk ... but with the end of the war I am happy that there is now peace, " TP Mazembe's captain Tresor Mputu told CNN last year before his debut in the competition.
Secondly, I'm just going to say that I'm happy -- I know there will be many questions and I'm happy to try to the best of my ability and the knowledge that we have right now to answer those questions, understanding that this is an investigation right now being conducted by the Department of Defense and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Others won't be happy until there are fundamental changes to the calculation of contribution limits.
When you are happy, there is no excuse for not trying to achieve your ambitions.
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I'm perfectly happy and there is no reason to play my football anywhere else.
"So I should be happy because there's more teams that I know in the ACC, " he said.
There is a very happy atmosphere at the moment and I hope it will continue at Old Trafford.
But is self-actualization through productive work--the ultimate goal of this liberation for Rand--all there is to a happy life?
But if movement makes you happy, there are plenty of opportunities for walking, biking, and kayaking on the grounds.
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The subway journey across Staten Island, with a bike to peddle the last two miles from there, has a happy ending.
There's a happy balance between the two extremes, and Google needs to find it before Android begins to slip away entirely.
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