Word: prosper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days after four high- ranking military officers were sacked, allegedly as part of a drug and corruption crackdown. That move sparked a simmering revolt within the military. Under the leadership of Lieut. Colonel Himmler Rebu, members of the army's elite Leopards corps took President Lieut. General Prosper Avril and his family hostage in a coup attempt. Loyalist troops rescued Avril at the airport as the captors prepared to send him into exile. A second coup attempt was put down by the Presidential Palace guards, who killed eight rebel military soldiers. By week's end the real casualty looked...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti--Shooting broke out early yesterday near the presidential palace, and a source close to the government said loyal soldiers had foiled an attempt to overthrow the government of Lt. Gen. Prosper Avril...
Putnam seems to have all the requisite ingredients for the deanship. If his qualifications translate into action, as it seems they will, the Kennedy School should prosper under his leadership well into the next decade...
...practice good ethics, you can prosper in business, but the former is harder than the latter," said James B. Keegan '63, president of Cambridgeport Bank, "So practice, practice, practice...
...commercials before 1984; now it has entered the syndication market and is licensing its name for products ranging from shampoo to sneakers. "We are a channel for kids and an advocate for kids first," says Laybourne. "The licensing is only an afterthought." Such ventures, moreover, enable the channel to prosper and expand its programming -- a fact of TV life that Nickelodeon's savvy young viewers would certainly understand. Call it: Why You Can Do That on Television...