Word: thrives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into a full-size, eight-column paper like its morning sister, the Times. Pinkley said the change was the result of a poll which showed that its readers, 6-to-1, preferred an eight-column paper. "Besides," added Pinkley, "Los Angeles just isn't a tabloid town. Tabloids thrive where two things exist: dense population and good public transportation; Los Angeles has neither...
...market also holds another terror: it is the most fiercely competitive market in the world. It is almost an axiom abroad that any mass-produced article that could be sent to the U.S. is being efficiently produced by American competitors. While U.S. producers thrive on competition, most foreign businessmen shun it. Thus they tend to concentrate on basic commodities, semi-finished goods for special industrial use, or national specialties unlike any produced in the U.S.-Scotch whiskey, British woolens, French wines or Belgian lace...
Certainly Harvard should shy from anything that would lead to Princeton's system of rigid, almost dictatorial, control. With all its enticements of bonus pools and guaranteed minimums--siphoned from weekly earnings--Nassau's version of the welfare state would not thrive in Cambridge. The situation is too different, with many more jobs available nearby, more complete service offered by local merchants, and thus, less variety of goods that students can sell in the College...
Botulism, the deadliest of all food poisonings, was reported only twice, but it killed four of its five victims. Since the bacteria which secrete botulin can thrive only when they are carelessly sealed in a nourishing medium without air, botulism nowadays is associated with home canning. In California, two victims ate home-canned mushrooms; in Oregon, two ate home-canned beets. They would have been all right if they had reboiled the food...
Expansion Plans. Alami has encountered only a handful of boys who do not fit in. Most thrive on their new life. Last week, with the offer of a $149,000 grant from the Ford Foundation, Alami was bubbling with expansion plans. Among them: bigger & better carpentry and tailoring shops, a flour mill, dairy farm or macaroni factory to sell products to surrounding villages. Says "Uncle" Musa: "I've never had a family. Now I have the most wonderful family a man could ask for." His hope: a Boystown big enough for a family...