Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Animals thrive long enough on the artificial blood a milky solution of fluorocarbons and industrial emulsifiers for natural blood to regenerate and take over the functions of carrying oxygen and nutritional elements to tissues in the body...
...Grandees and The Right People has given him biases that he has a hard time shaking. While as a fictioneer he likes to wallow in romance, as a social commentator he writes an analysis of Harvard club life which is the sort of hogwash upon which climbers thrive. But just because this isn't the sort of biography that will endear Marquand to posterity doesn't mean that it isn't entertaining...
Like all the Western journalists who thrive on their freedom to come and go as they please Terrill blanches at the thought of living with the restrictions on personal liberties which in China are commonplace. However, he stresses that the restrictions mean different things for the Chinese than for us. For the Chinese, the control provides a reassuring social structure in which to work. For the Westerner, it carries only negative connotations. Throughout the book Terrill tries to give a sense of Chinese values and the Chinese view of the world...
...those of mutual funds and insurance companies, carry with them the assumption that they are being used to serve the public good; it is on the basis of this assumption that they were collected, and, in fact, that the University remains open. The humanitarian assumptions that are supposed to thrive in the "academic context" should force the University into a greater role, not a lesser one, for these assumptions can't long exist with the widespread knowledge that they are financed by contradictory ones. The authors conclusion, therefore, that ethical investment decisions should be made as distant as possible from...
Both The Terminal Man and Binary -written under the author's old Harvard Medical School paperback pen name, John Lange-share their author's distinctive touch. Crichton creations thrive on a scientific esoterica that owes more to fact than to fiction. Crichton people tend to be value-neutral technicians who, like sorcerer's apprentices, meddle with forces they cannot control. Above all, there is Crichton's almost compulsive awareness of time and his skill at explaining the complex without losing the reader's interest...