Word: thrive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's a tendency for the loud and moreaggressive students to thrive and for the moretimid, less confident students to get leftbehind," she said...
...double room for four nights can cost up to $1,624, though that includes meals and a choice of five daily guided outings--by car, foot, mountain bike, boat or horse. The park is a 600,000-acre, UNESCO-declared biosphere where flamingos, black swans, llamas and condors thrive amid emerald lakes, glaciers, fjords and floating icebergs. At day's end guests can relax at the health spa with a Thai massage or a dip in the outdoor Jacuzzi. At mealtime they gaze out at the Salto Chico waterfall as white-jacketed waiters bring plates of fresh salmon or Patagonian...
Among the few things certain about the next century is that it will be wired, networked and global. Because national borders will be unable to block the flow of information and innovation, the societies that thrive will be those that are comfortable with openness and with the free flow of services, goods and ideas...
...this instant Chinese empire is more than energy and frugality. Yan and his business thrive on investors in New York City; New Zealand; Fort Worth, Texas; and Nashville, Tenn.; a globally scattered network of chums from Harvard Business School; ceaseless international E-mail; cell-phone calls from a lawyer named Larry; and Yan's addiction to the jet-set schmooze fest in Davos, Switzerland, each January. "I go to Davos and can talk to Newt Gingrich," enthuses Yan, who indeed seems voluble enough to talk to anyone, quite emphatically, and at any length. "I call him Newt. And I realize...
...east of the Rockies, is sneezing on ragweed from mid-August to the first frost, Southern Californians are expected to suffer from a surfeit of sagebrush and Russian thistle. This year, says Berger, "it's only going to get worse. These are the kinds of plants that thrive in disturbed soil, as in mudslides, and we've certainly had a lot of those lately...