Word: thrive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crime. But the reverse is also true: the ripple effects of crime eventually overwhelm a city and destroy its élan. People are frightened away from downtown, reducing business for stores, theaters, restaurants. In their place, thick as weeds, sprout porno houses, massage parlors and gambling havens, where criminals thrive...
...tyrants who rule the world and brutalize its people thrive on ignorance, doubt and supicion. Truth is radical; it works like water gently seeping, eating away at the structures of oppression. I no longer think of a university as necessarily a staging ground for the Kissingers; I think the Kissingers pervert the meaning of a university. My disgust for Harvard is no longer so general. It is directed at the Kissingers, the Bundys and the McNamaras and their apologists who murder and lie and then smugly smirk behind the liberal values they maintain...
...Carter tries to get his programs going in the months ahead, he will inevitably have to make choices that just as inevitably will alienate many groups of Americans. It remains to be seen whether the people program can thrive when people start taking sides on the merits of the Carter Administration...
...Critic John Haffenden has gathered 45 "Dream Songs" written after 77 Dream Songs (1964) and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (1968)-the two books that certified Berryman as a major American writer. Henry, the fast-talking middle-aged hero of the dream songs, continued to suffer and thrive in Berryman's imagination-and does so again in Henry's Fate...
...Bacterial Ecology. Every living species is adapted to a given range of habitats. The set of bacterial strains called E. coli thrive only in the vertebrate gut, and because these cells die out rather quickly in water the E. coli count of a pond or a well is a reliable index of its continuing fecal contamination. In the gut there is intense Darwinian competition between strains, depending on such variables as growth rate, growth requirements, ability to scavenge traces of food, adherence to the gut linings and resistance to antimicrobial factors in the host. Hence most novel strains are quickly...