Granted, the felicitous weather also can hinder home-improvement retailers because of lost sales of winter merchandise.

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More recently, however, as the European bail-out initiative has gotten underway, President Bush has struck a more felicitous tone.

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There is no reason to expect even more misguided unilateral executive branch actions regarding Bosnia to produce more felicitous results.

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The list lengthens but is non-felicitous: MetLife, Halliburton, Amazon, News Corp.

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The deal also sets up the movie's most felicitous invention, the revelation that Candyland's slaves include Django's long-lost wife, a German-speaking beauty named Broomhilda (Kerry Washington).

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There is a more felicitous tone in these spaces.

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In a scenario in which Gorbachev disappears from the scene or is transformed into a less felicitous character the near-term effect of the agreed reductions will almost certainly be less than advertized this may permit them to be reversed more easily by Moscow.

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Joe Macca's "Two-Man Show" at Marylhurst University's "Art Gym, " on the other hand, is an example of a less felicitous side of Portland's art scene, common to mid-size art worlds: a schizophrenia in which participants want to both play the art game as it's contested in New York or Miami and thumb their noses at it at the same time.

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