But one 24-hour Sudafed, two Advils and three cups of coffee later, I felt perky.
Slogans such as "more muscles than Brussels" and "keep perky when you're feeling murky" were used.
Not all is quite as rosy, of course, as his perky public-relations machine likes to proclaim.
Wall Street was boosted Wednesday morning by perky economic data ahead of the Fed's announcement this afternoon.
Yet the figures have not been so perky as to suggest the euro-zone economy will avoid recession.
His "Perky Jerky" gets an extra-long soak in marinade infused with "guarana, " a tropical berry that contains caffeine.
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His high-strung attorney wife Hannah, (a moving, desperately perky portrayal by Hannah Cabell), is worried about losing her job.
It is still there hours later, as she sits, perky and unfazed, among a crowd of fans and journalists.
Though the otters look perky, many carry traces of oil in their livers.
They would, unless economic growth proved perky enough to mop up the millions who will be thrown out of work.
When she took the anchor job she transformed from perky morning show host to the elite club of trusted evening news anchors.
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To begin with, the narrator's perky tone can be a bit irritating.
In contrast to Barbie's fantasy figure and perky high heels, these dolls are modeled on girls from historical eras and come with storybooks about themselves.
Or is something wrong with a society that insists our toes conform to stiletto shoes and our bodies be perky and bulge-free at all times?
Mr. DAVID SEDARIS (Writer): (As Crumpet the Elf) I wear green, velvet knickers, a forest green velvet smock and a perky little hat decorated with spangles.
Look at Amy Adams in closeup, for instance, all the scarier for being so perky and correct, her features filling the screen as she quizzes the reprobate.
Cash-strapped foreign investors are likely to take a dimmer view of riskier emerging markets such as Zambia, despite its quite perky performance of the past few years.
It was a sultry September, and a snack of dan dan noodles seasoned with salty preserved vegetables, perky Sichuan peppercorns and chili oil kept me alert in the intense humidity.
Eine, whose perky typography has been popping up across London for a number of years, chuckles at the memory of how his professional life has been turned on its head.
Lifelike dogs and cats of all sizes are scattered along the floor, from a perky-looking Brittany spaniel to a regal Persian cat, a lone iguana and the stray cockatiel or two.
He will often start off showing hysterical clients a photo book of "before" images--dogs with tumors the size of basketballs, cats with paralyzed hind legs--and "after" images of the healthy, perky animal.
In the big emerging economies the ideal is to have a mixed banking system with a big state presence, some perky private banks, and a few foreigners to keep the locals honest.
Japan Inc. is now in the business of making money for investors, which is one reason why Japanese equities have been so perky of late, having lain etherized upon the table for a decade.
In some respects the Midwest's economy looks perky.
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In pubs in cobbled Tallinn, Estonia's perky capital, whose Hanseatic flavour now far out-smells its Soviet one, Mr Ilves, aged 44, clad in billy-cap and leather jacket, has an easy rapport with Estonia's go-ahead young.
Mr Varney played the perky Cockney survivor making life hell for the lugubrious Blakey, the bus-inspector, a Hitler lookalike who swore at the end of every episode to get even with him, and never did.
For the first time since then, the all-powerful African National Congress (ANC) was challenged by an opposition party able to point to its own perky record in local government and contrast it with the ANC's fairly dismal one.
The Federal Open Market Committee will be convening for the sixth time this year, and could sound more perky, but don't expect to see a change in interest rates, or a major shift in its asset purchase plan.
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