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• 8. TOPS IN TECH TOUGHER TO TELL
• The AP's Anick Jesdanun says competition has gotten so intense that one brand rarely stands out anymore in any tech product category.
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• 9. WORDS BETTER LEFT UNSAID
• "Selfie" and "twerk" top a Michigan university's annual list of annoying words, with "Mr. Mom" and "hashtag" also strong contenders.
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• 10. NFL COACHING CAROUSEL SPINS
• With the regular season barely concluded, five head coaches are already unemployed.
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AP News in Brief
DIGITS: Looking back at 2013, polls suggest this wasn't America's best year
• About half of Americans expect 2014 to be a better year than 2013, according to the recent AP-Times Square New Year's Eve poll. And judging by the typical questions pollsters use to measure the public mood, it doesn't seem like it could be much worse.
• A look at how the public rated the nation's performance in 2013:
• RIGHT DIRECTION? NOT QUITE YET
• Whether people think the nation is heading the right way or the wrong way is a basic measure of optimism that pollsters have used for decades to gauge the public mood. In AP-GfK polling this year, few thought the United States had found the right path.
• The December AP-GfK poll showed the share of Americans who feel the nation is heading in the right direction rebounded to 34 percent from its October low of 22 percent, but it's not clear yet whether that's a directional shift or just a temporary recovery -- what Wall Street calls a dead-cat bounce.
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