Word: prosperous
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...It’s my belief that those who stand out and prosper are those who transcend hip-hop’s often typical flakiness and irresponsibility,” he says. “They come into the studio, they do the shit—quickly and easily and well...
...Even after their blistering runups, the builder stocks sell for just eight times earnings per share-less than half the market?s overall multiple of 18. New orders are clearly slowing, and may fall as much as 5% this year. But even at that rate the big homebuilders can prosper. As a group, they?ve increased their share of the market from 10% to 25%-at the expense of small builders-over the past 15 years, and that share could easily go to 35% or more. Meanwhile, this year?s earnings are practically in the bank because builders have...
...given in the movie industry that it?s possible to prosper at the box office if you can capture the evangelical ticket-buyer. But there are different ways to go about it. The Passion of the Christ, for instance, was marketed to evangelical leaders and had an overarching message-an unflinching focus on Christ?s Atonement-that spoke to the center of evangelical belief. In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe the Christian symbolism was much more subtle, but the movie adapted a beloved work by one of Evangelicalism?s most revered interpreters, C. S. Lewis, and was authorized...
TIME's assessment of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford skipped over the facts. You were critical of his frugality and his efforts to improve the economy without noting what he has actually done, which is to make the ground fertile for South Carolina's businesses to grow and prosper. He cut the marginal income-tax rate for the first time in South Carolina's history, which will return more than $130 million to our state's small businesses over the next four years. Sanford undertook our state's first comprehensive legal reform and retooled the commerce department. Although he inherited...
...cumbersome and outdated administration will be junked, and unfair-dismissal laws will be made more sensible. The economic argument is that reform will reduce the cost of labor and help the nation become more productive. Jobs will be created and incomes will rise as business and the country prosper. Howard's ideological grace note here is about individualism, freedom and choice. For the culminating effort of a veteran industrial warrior, the proposals appear moderate - indeed, for free-market purists and employer groups they are a disappointment...