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...Flyers don't want things to become wide open in the finals. They will prosper only if they can negate the Oilers' scoring edge with a defensive blanket...
...major parts of the computer business with continued strong sales is the software industry, which develops the programs that tell the machines what to do. Because 18 million personal computers are already in use, software manufacturers can prosper merely by selling new programs to old customers. Software sales jumped 36% last year, to 62 million programs. Even so, stiff competition has given the industry a high mortality rate. In the past two years the number of major software producers has shrunk from more than 200 to about...
...state. But now Nkomo, ensconced in Matabeleland, his tribal home in the western part of the country, increasingly appears to many of his countrymen as more of a nuisance than the savior of Zimbabwe. There are several reasons for this, among them the fact that Zimbawe has begun to prosper economically. Also, Mugabe continues to court the country's influential white farmers, and he appears to be backing away from his autocratic aims...
...business of the Colombian drug czars has emerged from the shadows, their illicit dealings with neighboring countries like Panama have also come to light. Ever since the cocaine market began to prosper, some Panamanians have taken money in exchange for allowing the coqueros to use their country as a transshipment point. In addition, a few corrupt Panamanian bankers have permitted the Colombians to take advantage of the strictest banking secrecy laws in the hemisphere by laundering drug dollars. Last June U.S. customs agents in Miami discovered that a DC-8 jet transport, owned by Inair, at the time Panama...
...Madson in his book Where the Sky Began, an eloquent evocation of the changing heartland and its people. "Those first Europeans had no basis for even imagining wild fields through which a horseman might ride westward for a month or more." The land enlarged their spirits and made them prosper...