Word: thrive
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Other entrepreneurs thrive on challenges that can daunt larger firms. Few industries have shrunk more in recent years than American shoe manufacturing, which has seen imports walk off with much of its business. Yet the Timberland shoe company (1983 sales: $60 million), based in the rural hamlet of Newmarket, N.H., has weathered the foreign onslaught and added 900 workers over the past five years. "We benefited from the lack of imagination of some of the other old shoe companies around here," says Herman Swartz, president of the family-owned concern. Fully one-quarter of Timberland's sales have come...
...first place. I don't care how big a tradition tearing down goalposts is. It was a very unfortunate accident, but I don't think New Haven or Yale can be blamed for lack of protection. This lawsuit is a further example of the legal bureaucracy that the lawyers thrive on in order to keep them in practice. Yes, perhaps Yale should help for some of the medical costs, but they are not to blame. Again, it was an unfortunate accident and I wish Miss Cimino goodwill in recovery. But money is hardly any way to getting better. Coco Trumbull...
Still, the tribes persist--283 of them at last count--and it can be said that in some respects they thrive. At the turn-of-the-century the U.S. Indian population was under 300,000; today it is 1.4 million and climbing. Do the tribes know some thing we don't? Do they have something to teach Mr. Reagan--not, to be sure, about getting ahead in the world, but perhaps aboutnot getting ahead? Is it possible that life is more fruitfully lived in the Indians' circular way (the turning of the earth) than in our accustomed linear fashion (onward...
...would be nice to expect more from Angel than the run-of-the-mill locker room scenes and street chases Hollywood producers thrive on. And it would be equally gratifying to see a decent movie made about adolescent troubles. But even if Angel isn't able to do either, sociologists in the year 2000 should at least be grateful that it paints an accurate picture of what movies in 1964 were all about...
...Soviet Union, the Dniester became "brinier than the saltiest sea water," in Vasilyev's words. Containing as much as 10 oz. of salt for every quart, the burning brew killed some 2,000 tons of fish, destroyed an unknown quantity of aquatic plant life on which fish thrive, and forced officials to cut off water temporarily to numerous communities that depend on the Dniester, including the major cities of Odessa and Kishinev. To make up for the lost water, officials scurried to drill wells and divert streams and lakes...