Sentences with phrase «few bright points»

Really haven't been excited about 2016 but it's clear there are a few bright points on the horizon.

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What's the point of having an academy if we can not trust a few of our brightest youngsters to break through.

A team of researchers pointed the telescope at GK Persei, an object that became a sensation in the astronomical world in 1901 when it suddenly appeared as one of the brightest stars in the sky for a few days, before gradually fading away in brightness.

As Collier points out, in many cities the brighter and better - motivated black people have moved into white, middle - class suburbs so that there are far fewer role models in the black community.

He was an optical engineer who repaired aircraft instruments in Alaska in WWII, a mountain man who could turn a canoe into a sailboat with a folding machete, bed sheets and a few sticks, who taught me diffraction, color theory and relativity on paper when other kids were learning multiplication tables, who designed a potentiometer that went to the Moon by pointing the world's fastest camera at the world's fastest oscilloscope, who designed those traffic lights which only appear bright when you are in the appropriate lane, who didn't have to help me at all when I built my own Heathkit dual - channel scope in grade school, nor had to help me program my Apple II in machine language, who quit Honeywell to work for 3M when the Space Program turned into the nuclear missile program, who studied mining geology in college after growing up in a mining town in Utah, it was he who taught me, early on: make sure your contraption works!