Word: prospered
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Relationships that prosper and endure may take vastly different forms, but they tend to have some sound practices in common. Whether a parent, businessperson or school principal initiates it, a partnership must meet a genuine need. It must have specific, agreed-upon goals as well as benchmarks to determine whether it's on course to meet them. It should have top-level support from the business and the school, an orientation to acquaint teachers and volunteers with the undertaking at hand and someone to co-ordinate their efforts. A signed agreement is useful not only to clarify the intent...
...whole new world. Vietnam's younger generation has escaped from under the very eyes of the government, which didn't even see them going. The party's authority no longer crosses the generation gap, and a huge empty space has opened up in society for youngsters to prosper--or self-destruct. A 15-min. cell-phone call in Saigon costs the same as a single hit of heroin in one of the city's public parks...
...course invidious. If Canadians wish to disown Gore, and to repudiate the notion that his personality takes its distinctive resonance from Canadian origins, then that is a decision that must be respected. On the other hand, if Gore were elected president of the U.S, American-Canadian relations might prosper as never before...
...Martha Wolf and Susan Welch Saunders' blackberry scones make the sorry impostors at a certain ubiquitous coffee-house chain taste like clay pigeons, and where a juiced-up group of local retailers and other die-hards plot strategies for the town, not just for it to survive but to prosper...
...family name, Sonnenschein, translates as Sunshine, and its bearers at first prosper in turn-of-the-20th-century Budapest, selling an herbal tonic with that cheerful word emblazoned on the bottles. But they are Jews in an endemically anti-Semitic society. By the end of Istvan Szabo's three-hour epic, which traces the family's decline through three historical epochs--the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Nazism and communism--the irony of his title is almost unbearable. There is little sunshine in Sunshine, only degradation...