Word: thrive
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...national gas and electricity monopolies, the E.U. is pushing to open energy markets. By next year, almost all households and businesses will have the freedom to shop around for a power supplier. "An open and competitive single E.U. market is crucial" if businesses are to compete and consumers thrive, Brussels' Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes declared last month. Now if only everyone could agree on how to get there. There is no shortage of European energy firms who want to become big enough to offer services across the Continent. Indeed, Europe's utilities are on a shopping spree. According to Dealogic...
...vanilla-ness”. The editorial is asking women’s groups to seek help from groups based upon a social ideology that they are trying to combat: exclusion. As penniless and homeless as the sororities and women’s final clubs are reported to be, they thrive on their exclusivity in selecting female members. Male final clubs thrive on the exclusivity of both sexes: women based on their appearance, and men based on their non-membership in the clubs. Non-Harvardians believe that Harvard is an institution of elitism and exclusivity, and the Crimson editorial did little...
...belief in undergraduates and the life sciences is that much of the new campus will be devoted to expanding life sciences and improving undergraduate life. Summers coupled that vision with an increasing understanding of community-building. He championed new housing for graduate students so that Allston would thrive as a mixed-use scholarly environment. He endorsed environmental sustainability. He built a strong relationship with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino to avoid the meltdown of town-gown relations that stopped us in Cambridge. Summers encouraged those involved in discussing Allston to push their creativity to its limit. He was a superb leader...
...Brothers—rhyme book. Decades before Caz’s lament, Little Richard voiced a similar criticism of Elvis, claiming that the so-called “King of Rock and Roll” had usurped his status as rock’s monarch. Turf wars continue to thrive in the modern era (witness Nirvana’s territorial pissings over Pearl Jam’s alleged corruption of grunge), along with another enduring cut of beef, the “philosophical” feud, one founded on a fundamental difference regarding aesthetic or content.Lynyrd Skynyrd?...
...Orleans wearing superhero uniforms and helping others along the way,” he wrote. “There are a lot of challenges that come with communal living, but what most impressed me was the collective energy and flexibility and the fact that the organization continues to thrive as waves of volunteers come...