Word: thrive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stop people from fighting who have been born to fight, have fought for generations and actually thrive on fighting. But it can prevent those who want to live in peace from being caught in the fray. When discrimination becomes part of the plan, however, the U.N. will never create a truly just peace...
...have become carriers of human plague. A new report says the cats can pick up the disease from rodents or fleas and transmit it via licks, bites or scratches. Only 15 cases of plague have been traced to cats, however, and such simple precautions as removing trash where rodents thrive can limit risk to humans...
President Neil L. Rudenstine, for one (and you thought the president had better things to worry about) was inclined to think that the earth is not the only place where living beings thrive...
When and why did this footloose species take off from Africa? Undoubtedly, reasoned anthropologists, H. erectus made a breakthrough that let it thrive in a much broader range of conditions than it was accustomed to. And there was direct evidence of a major technological advance that could plausibly have done the trick. Excavations of sites dating back 1.4 million years B.P., 4,000 centuries after H. erectus first appeared, uncovered multifaceted hand axes and cleavers much more finely fashioned than the simple stone tools used before. These high-tech implements are called Acheulean tools, after the town of St. Acheul...
...have known equally many mature enough to handle, indeed thrive on, being treated like adults. The blue books in Professor Fleming's course, which I have read as a grader, always have reflected this--a substantial number of them mediocre and derived from circulating photocopied notes, but many others that showed genuine interest and understanding...