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These shows are wonderful and ambitious not just because they can get away with sex and swearing (though it helps). They are able to aim high, and thrive, precisely because the economics of cable allow them to succeed with smaller audiences that want to be challenged. FX's Emmy-winning thriller Damages never would have made it on broadcast because of its byzantine twists and turns; it would have to be simplified, Law & Order -ized. Ditto HBO's and Showtime's hits: an audience intensely interested enough to pay to watch TV will reward risk, not caution...
...give a stable life to the majority of people living in Afghanistan. That means that guns should be replaced with ploughshares. By doing so, those people will be able to rebuild their lives. And in this situation, al-Qaeda and the Taliban will naturally not be able to thrive...
...tigers really want to thrive, the answer might lie in rejecting a legacy of Park Chung Hee: the idea that government alone can successfully engineer high economic performance. Jim Walker, an economist at the research firm Asianomics in Hong Kong, argues that Asia's politicians still intervene too much in their economies instead of allowing market forces to work. "What governments need to do is start trusting their own people rather than hoping the West is going to get it right all of the time," Walker says. For the tigers to keep roaring, they may need to find their future...
...every employee in insecure industries has such a gloomy view, Burchell says. Entrepreneurs seem to thrive. In general, women fare better too. While reporting higher levels of anxiety than men when directly questioned, women scored lower in stress on the GHQ 12, even when they had a job they felt insecure about losing. As Burchell explains, "For women, most studies show that any job - it doesn't matter whether it is secure or insecure - gives psychological improvement over unemployment." Burchell hypothesizes that the difference in men is that they tend to feel pressure not only to be employed, but also...
...Task Force Chair Ray Mellone agreed that Western Ave. is a “long way from becoming a main street or downtown business section” and suggested Harvard use its Business School faculty to identify and recruit businesses that would thrive in an academic neighborhood such as the one envisioned in Allston...