1.   A few more rounds of kava and the world would seem a happier place, where all people are friends and the disputes among them seem comically insignificant.

2.   But Dave Puetz, the network administrator at Adtech Solutions in Alpharetta, Ga., wrote to suggest that I could make his e-mailbox a happier place.

3.   Even his sets had become happier places.

4.   Sellers are hoping that the world will be a happier place by then and that people will feel like buying art.

5.   The locker room was a much happier place than it was three weeks ago.

6.   The world would be a happier place, and the gals could go shopping and the guys could watch television.

7.   Defense lawyers say Lemak thought she and the children would be reunited in a happier place after death.