Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deer are creatures that thrive in a disturbed environment," says Ben Glading, a California game official. "It seems that the more man upsets the natural environment, the better the deer like it." California, the nation's most populous state, also supports the nation's second biggest (behind Texas) deer herd-1,000,000. Pennsylvania has more deer today than when William Penn founded the colony. And in New York, where deer were extinct in 1915, the whitetail population...
...this doesn't mean that the two groups are mutually exclusive. In fact, hippies thrive best at a University in which the activists have a maximum of power; while activists seem to be most effective at a university which has a large hippy population. Each group helps the other--the hippies provide the life style and atmosphere while the activists bring about the changes which allow their wigged-out brethren to survive...
...dollars and British pounds have been relied on as the world's two most trustworthy currencies for trade. This, in turn, has led to undue pressure on dollars and pounds, which if allowed to continue, could stagnate foreign trade. So far, at least, international trade continues to thrive, and has actually doubled in the past ten years. But the worrisome fact remains that during this same period, world reserves have grown by barely...
Whatever the level of federal bil lions, the U.S. is going to need the kind of overview offered by urbanologists like Moynihan if its cities are to survive and thrive. Last spring, Rhode Island's Providence College awarded Moynihan an honorary degree that was accompanied by a particularly apt citation: "You have dared to throw light on some of the most frightening problems facing urban dwellers, not to elicit common agreement with your solutions so much as to force us to look where we would rather not." Moynihan and the other urbanologists may not have all the answers...
...start with the hitherto unsolvable plight of the refugees. However the crisis is finally resolved, Israel must somehow make peace with the Arabs if it is to survive as a nation. It cannot prosper indefinitely, or even exist indefinitely, barricaded against its neighbors. If Israel is to continue to thrive, it has to find a way to trade in peace, attract new investment and live within its means; it now spends a third of its national budget on defense...