Timothy Loew, the executive director of the Massachusetts Digital Games Institute (MassDiGI), sees a silver lining in the clouds over Rhode Island.

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Further, it allows your company to attract top talent from competitive organizations, proving once again that there may be a silver lining in the clouds.

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The silver lining in these storm clouds is modest: the rainfall replenishes the underground aquifers on which some farmers rely, and the warmer current brings shrimp and lobsters to Peru's coast and provides ideal growing conditions for scallops.

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It may have taken five days to get to Number 10 Downing Street, the official residence and office of the Prime Minister, but the silver Jaguar that whisked him there was a genuine silver lining against the early morning gray clouds.

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This is a bold attempt to discover a silver lining in the hurricane's clouds.

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But there are clouds accompanying the silver lining.

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If the clouds over Detroit have a silver lining, it is that Chrysler has profited from its rivals' adversity.

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