Word: prospering
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...world did end and without my book review or anything resembling the odious practice of playing with another man's art, his soul, to please thousands of brain-addled air junkies who gulp the stuff like it could make their lives worth living. No, live alone, fair book, and prosper without the words of praise I can shower upon you in my giddy bout of pseudo-creativity...
...collapse as Paul Erdman envisioned ten years ago in his geopolitical thriller The Crash of '79. And where is the return of runaway inflation that he hypothesized for the mid-'80s in The Last Days of America (1981)? Both scenarios have, for the moment, been upstaged by the selective prosperity of Reaganomics. But like many well-known experts, Erdman continues to prosper by being wrong. His writing career was in fact launched by an international banking blunder. That was in 1970, when he was vice chairman of the United California Bank in Basel, where officials participated in some ruinous commodity...
...assets as a national candidate is that he has learned that the people who vote Democratic and think of themselves as Democrats do not for the most part live in Cambridge, Newton and Brookline. They are not liberal tinkerers and social experimenters. They like government when it helps them prosper, but not when it threatens their power or independence...
...doubtful, though, that the corporate pullouts or sanctions passed earlier will have much immediate impact on South African racial policy. The country's leaders, determined to go their own way, are convinced they can continue to prosper even in economic isolation. Officials are already gearing up to circumvent trade sanctions. They have long since proved their skills at "sanctions busting," by defying the United Nations arms embargo imposed against Pretoria in 1977. To combat the new U.S. measures and also those imposed by the European Community and Japan in September, the government of State President P.W. Botha has now established...
...many companies can reap handsome profits by giving away everything they produce. But in the newspaper business, an enterprising group of publishers is doing just that. By relying solely on advertising revenues, their papers prosper without charging readers a cent. From the suburban Boston Tab (circ. 150,000) to Berkeley's East Bay Express (circ. 45,000), free newspapers, most of them weeklies, are finding lucrative editorial niches and providing a sprightly alternative to established dailies...