Word: prospers
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...speak often of the Americas as una gran familia, a great family. We are, after all, related through our experiences in this hemisphere, by our painstaking struggle to build shared institutions and by our shared vision of a prosperous and democratic future. Like members of any family, the peoples and countries of the hemisphere face challenges that will surely test us. And like members of a true family, it is the depth of our commitment to common values and purposes that gives us strength and makes it possible for us to go forward and to develop and prosper together...
When we began our 18-month series called Innovators, in which we're profiling 100 people with bold ideas, we felt a bit as if we were buying shares in them. Having called attention to these budding revolutionaries, we wanted them to prosper and to have an impact. Now, just past the halfway point in the series, we're happier than a lot of investors these days...
...female and Jewish--we're even further from the traditional Crimson WASP than that. With whom at the College would alumni specifically seek connection, anyway? Their houses have been randomized, their final clubs rejected and their fellow Harvardians (gasp) diversified. A few vestiges of the Old Boys' Club still prosper, thank goodness, but even those are fading fast. (The Fly Club now includes four--four--minorities...
Should we give a spot to Susan? That's the question before a roomful of admissions officers at Mount Holyoke College. Susan, who has top grades and gushing recommendations, could surely prosper here. But what more, they wonder, would she bring to this cozy all-women's college in South Hadley, Mass.? Giulietta Aquino, Susan's advocate on the six-member committee, ticks off a few of her accomplishments. She is a decorated horseback rider aiming for the Olympics who commutes three hours a day between her home, school and horse barn but still finds time to tutor immigrant children...
...that pop up from time to time in the financial press are often misinterpreted as demonstrating that one party or nation can benefit from trade at the expense of another. This is emphatically not the case. It is one of the soundest and oldest conclusions of economics that people prosper when they are free to improve their welfare through voluntary exchange. Rising real wages and technological advancement are just two of the most visible examples of the vast, mind-shattering benefits of this process. Unfortunately, the progressive tax rates that Democrats are now defending are depriving both the rich...