Word: thrive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's best-known insurer, Lloyd's of London manages to thrive on modern risk while paying homage to 275 years of tradition. In Lloyd's five-story London headquarters, where it moved only six years ago, reports of ships lost at sea are still registered with an elegant quill, and attendants are clad in scarlet coat and black collar. Important news is heralded by strokes from an ancient battleship bell-one stroke for bad news, two for good. Last week Lloyd's had some bad news: it suffered one of its worst losses in Britain...
Four soft-eyed, cream-colored antelopes with enormous knobby horns frisked in the Phoenix Maytag Zoo last week under constant, anxious watch by their keeper. They are Arabian oryxes, some of the world's rarest animals, and if they thrive in the desert climate of Arizona, they may live to be the only oryxes left on earth...
...Last Supper. Most Disneyland imitators have discovered that a park cannot thrive on a theme alone. "Theme parks have a hard time, unless they add new attractions," says one authority. "People don't come back, and what makes a park click is repeat business...
Eradication of parasite-bearing snails is not one bit easier than attacking the worms in man. The snails have survived the assaults of modern chemistry, and they thrive on the benefits of modern engineering-each new irrigation system, each new dam provides more breeding places. Victims pick up the larva in snail-infested paddyfields and irrigated patches where they work, drink and wash clothes. During the occupation of Japan, the U.S. Army drastically reduced the incidence of the disease by killing snails with the chemical sodium pentachlorphenate, but like so many other chemical agents, the stuff also killed fish...
...herd of cows to supply his family with milk, and wears simple white cotton from his own mills. Mafatlal and other Indian industrialists of his generation are more civic-minded and less apologetic about wielding great wealth than were their fathers and grandfathers. Since their companies generally thrive despite India's chaotic economic conditions-while many government projects founder because of red tape and mismanagement-they are understandably anxious to protect themselves from nationalization. Yet they agree that India's problems are so many and so huge that there is plenty of room for both private and public...