The heartening news is that CAL's safety record has improved in the past 12 months.

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Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg said the judicial review was "heartening news".

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That is heartening news, but I know acts that seem simple enough to do in America can turn out to be insurmountable challenges in Iraq.

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Despite the many real bits of heartening news, bad omens abound.

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That is why it was heartening news that last month, for the first time in more than two years, our economy created a substantial number of jobs, instead of losing them.

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Heartening news rang forth from the renewable energy sector this week as a UN-backed study reported that the building of new renewable energy plants has officially overtaken fossil fuel plants in Europe and the US. We also took a look at two brand new types of power plants -- the world's first hydrogen-driven power plant in Italy and the first hybrid coal-solar power plant in Colorado.

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The week-to-week claims, look, are a heartening bit of good news, and we certainly -- our hope is that it will certainly continue.

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That may be heartening for Joseph Nacchio , the former chief executive of Qwest Communications (nyse: Q - news - people ), who faces 42 counts of insider trading in a Denver federal court after a four-year investigation into accounting fraud at the telecommunications firm.

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But there's a heartening turnaround in progress, says Ghansham Panjabi, an analyst at Wachovia (nyse: WB - news - people ).

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