Word: thrive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they watch a lot of news, documentaries and special- interest programming, those offerings will expand. If video on demand is a huge money-maker, that is what will grow. If video bulletin boards - or teleconferencing, or interactive Yellow Pages, or electronic town meetings - are hot, those services too will thrive and spread...
...that is exactly what the bulk of the population holed up inside bureaucratic organizations doesn't have, and why they are scared to death." Already the temping phenomenon is producing two vastly different classes of untethered workers: the mercenary work force at the top of the skills ladder, who thrive; and the rest, many of whom, unable to attract fat contract fees, must struggle to survive...
Take the coalition's original flyer, which declared that the sins of a "Peculiar Institution" thrive at Harvard. Coalition members should try to focus on reality. If they believe that the racism that accompanied the slave system is really alive at Harvard, then they will be surprised at the injustice and racial inequality that exists in the real world. Harvard is far from the "plantation" and would be even farther if these minority students helped to unify the student body...
...some silly, senseless thing. No, their probe reveals that love rests firmly on the foundations of evolution, biology and chemistry. What seems on the surface to be irrational, intoxicated behavior is in fact part of nature's master strategy -- a vital force that has helped humans survive, thrive and multiply through thousands of years. Says Michael Mills, a psychology professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles: "Love is our ancestors whispering in our ears...
...Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism, Reich describes how America's new professional elite has grown ever more distant from the rest of society and disengaged itself from communal spaces, institutions and obligations. "The most skilled and insightful Americans," he wrote, "who are already positioned to thrive in the world market, are now able to slip the bonds of national allegiance, and by so doing disengage themselves from their less-favored fellows. The stark political challenge in the decade ahead will be to affirm that, even though America is no longer a separate and distinct economy...