Inside, a wide hallway opens into a waiting room bright with natural light.
Instead, banks are booking larger profits — and much of the money either leaves the country or sits on balance sheets, waiting for brighter days.
The best protected caterpillar I've seen is the red admiral, which bites and folds a nettle leaf to make itself a little tent, where it shelters from predators and rain, waiting for brighter times.
This may be true for a number of reasons, including low interest rates (hedge funds often hold big cash balances while they wait for bright ideas); the result of so many hedge funds getting into the business and, often, pursuing the same strategies; the possibility that the supply of hedge funds has outstripped the talent to run them; or simple chance.
We must not forget that our sisters and brothers are waiting for a bright, peaceful future.
Like the half-dozen others who had treatments around the same time, I came out of the dressing room (or niwa, as they call it, drawing on the Japanese word for "resting place") into the central coed waiting area, a bright room filled with couches and coffee tables that overlooks the spa's outdoor pool, which glittered and steamed in the cool air.
Considering and calculating, waiting for something bright and delicious to appear.
Some institutions, well-positioned to reimburse taxpayers through fresh stock offerings, are choosing instead to wait for brighter days when their stock prices are not so depressed.
They overflowed the church's pews, with scores waiting outside in the bright morning sunlight.
Dag Kittlaus, who I've kept waiting, looks on the bright side.
