Word: prosperous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Davis feels strongly, however that the United States should devote more effort to economic and social development in Vietnam. "Vietnam needs to become economically viable, to develop human resources--otherwise it won't prosper no matter who's running...
Sears expects to grow further in Latin America, in the next five years plans to open 50 new branches in Brazil alone. Smaller local retailers have two choices. They can complain about the competition, and languish. Or they can prosper by adopting Sears's fairly moderate prices and modern methods. Many have done just that...
...band were soon booked for $3,000 a week in the St. Regis Hotel's Maisonette. Almost immediately, the nightclub's business quadrupled. Peter stayed on for three years, and the Maisonette was the only cheek-to-cheek dance spot in New York, besides El Morocco, to prosper in spite of the discotheques...
...state. "Paupers are everywhere!" she cried after a tour of England, and her Parliament sped up passage of its poor-relief acts. Just about then, Calvin declared that idleness was the real sin-which in the U.S. developed into the Puritan ethic that virtuous people are bound to prosper and the slothful will earn the bitter reward of poverty. Less than a century ago, Henry Ward Beecher thundered: "No man in this land suffers from poverty unless it be more than his fault-unless...
...last year. Even in his long exile in Hong Kong, Chin used his wide international contacts to build up the bank's foreign business, left its local affairs in the hands of a youthful staff. Whatever its reservations about Chin, the government is happy to see his bank prosper. Bangkok Bank has obviously helped to enrich the economy and has paid substantial dividends to its largest minority stockholder, the Thai government, which owns 30% of the shares...