Word: prospered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moscow. "Orthodoxy has found a new and permanent home" in America, said Theodosius?in English?at his installation last week, but it must overcome ethnic barriers and form a united church if it is to survive and prosper here...
According to sociobiologists, evolution produces organisms that automatically follow this mathematical logic, as if they were computers, totting up the genetic costs or benefits of helping out relatives who bear many of the same genes. If aiding the relatives increases the chances that familial genes will prosper and propagate, the organism will act altruistically?even to the extent of giving up its life, as a parent may, for example, by rushing into a burning house to save a child. Yet in humans, this genetic push is less binding; sociobiologists believe that human social behavior is largely controlled by facultative genes?...
Hurrah for the family practitioners-God bless 'em and may they prosper...
...special treatment on tariffs there." Although Keating is concentrating his efforts on the U.S., he recently lured Beecham Group Ltd., the big British pharmaceutical firm, to invest in a 50-acre site near Shannon Airport. (Britain remains Ireland's main trading partner; more than 200 British plants prosper in Ireland.) The products shipped from foreign-owned Irish plants, ranging from cardiac pacemakers to computers, transformers to cranes, are testimony, Keating says, to the adaptability of Irish workers...
...vices, are similar to those attributed to Rumania's present-day dictator. While ironhandedly ruling his country, Ceausescu credits himself with keeping both Western imperialism and Soviet expansionism at bay. Summing up the lessons of Vlad's reign, one Rumanian historian notes, "The country can only prosper under authoritarian rule." More turgidly, another Communist analyst contends that Vlad exemplifies "love for the fatherland, undaunted support for the high ideals of the people [which] represent a material force capable of curbing the surge of even the mightiest power...