Word: thrive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard milieu' may just not sustain an honor code on any terms. The self-reliance and self-interest of the Harvard student might smother an honor code before it had a chance to grow and thrive...
This is not to say that we can only find true joy in the simple, unambitious life. To do so would be trite and false. There are those among us who genuinely thrive on success, are only truly happy when reaching a new goal, and can take it in stride when they fail...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Products and services thrive in competitive environments; why not introduce competition into education [through school-choice legislation...
Much of the success of This Town came from a talented cast, which could thrive in a difficult medium. While the whole cast was strong, a few were especially worthy of note. Harvard alum Jon Matthews '84 played a slyly naive New York journalist, with a humor and style that is often believable, though sometimes overdone. John Randolph, of Prizzi's Honor fame, brilliantly portrayed an "authentic," folksy political fossil who "holds court" with wry witticisms and hackneyed observations. Finally, Richard Kind of TV's Spin City and Samantha Bennett colorfully reflected the vanity, insecurity and ambition that consume...
Yankovic and Foxworthy perform in concert as well, but the Jerky Boys (one failed movie aside) thrive only on recordings. Their one unvarying gimmick: merciless prank phone calls. On their latest album (Jerky Boys 3), they ring up pizza places and massage parlors and torment people at the other end with idiotic requests or unprompted verbal abuse. To callers responding to classified ads they've placed for power tools, the Boys babble psychotically and refuse to give any information. You know the album has gone awry when you start cheering the hang...