Word: prosperous
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...Some prosper. One of Hosseim's roommates got his working papers, does regular shifts at a marble factory nearby, and is putting away as much as $470 a month. But Italians say they're fed up with the illegals who harvest their beloved pomodori. Silvio Berlusconi's new government is pushing through a bill that would mandate jail time for immigrants caught without documents, and the E.U. has passed new guidelines that allow member states to detain illegal immigrants for up to 18 months and impose a re-entry ban of up to five years...
Directed gifts, or donations with a specific vision, can lead to more effective implementation, and we expect that Harvard’s international and arts programs will visibly develop and prosper as a result of Rockefeller’s generosity. This recent gift was not Rockefeller’s first to the University, and it follows on the heels of his many previous donations towards Harvard’s Latin American studies center. His previous donations offer ample evidence for what donation with a vision can do. Since its creation in 1994, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies...
...play the victim card, arguing that Maliki and the Americans had attacked him and his loyalists, even while allowing the militias of his Shi'ite rivals to prosper - as well as the U.S.-paid Sunni militias that are now being integrated into the Iraqi police and army. He can reasonably argue that he is the one true Iraqi patriot, the Iraqi leader the Americans fear most. How else to explain the attack on his Mahdi Army while he was observing a unilateral cease-fire? Furthermore, like Hizballah in Lebanon after the Israeli invasion in 2006, the Mahdi Army can claim...
...readily dismiss those who believe the E.U. is, or should be, about economics. The relevant economic context is not European but global, and the responsibility for pursuing economic policies that will enable business and industry to prosper in a globalized world economy is national. No, the purpose of the E.U., right from the start, even when it called itself the European Economic Community, has always been political...
...impossible. In 1992 the first thing most Americans learned about Bill Clinton was that he'd been shagging a lounge singer named Gennifer Flowers. The second was that he'd avoided the military draft during Vietnam. But Clinton-a politician as extraordinary as Obama-managed to survive and, intermittently, prosper...