Word: prospered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clark Kerr, Commission chairman, said that if educational institutions are to prosper the federal and state governments will have to contribute substantially more funds than in the past...
...internal order, forbidding the gazu and destroying the tribes' stockpiles of arms. Civilization, in the shape of the road and the automobile, ended the demand for camels and forced the nomads to fold up their goat-hair tents and drift into towns and villages. Today the Beni Sakhr prosper by dealing in real estate and farming 100,000 acres of land planted in grains...
Dirty Dozen. Mrs. Whitner quickly established the "School for Welfare Cheaters." Its purpose was to prove that welfare peculators can and do prosper in California. Her appearance at the hearing drew offers of help from all over and Mrs. Whitner organized eleven fellow conspirators. Though posing as needy persons, they have incomes of at least $400 to more than $1,000 a month. Under Mrs. Whitner's guidance, the Dirty Dozen set about systematically bilking Bay Area welfare offices...
...guerrillas can thus survive, but to prosper they may have to change. Like many revolutionary movements, their central command is being devoured by warring ideologies...
...million copies. They never got over their 1812 Overture -the one with all the cannons-and they asked me to do a reorchestration of Carmen. I happen to think Bizet did it pretty well himself, so I said no. Then I met David. We got to talking about Prosper Mérimée's original Carmen story, which is tough as a documentary film. We decided to go about ten times as far as Rodion Shchedrin did in The Carmen Ballet that's being played to death nowadays. We wanted to really shock and mortify the opera...