Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Understandably enough, the Walker spy scandal is an occasion for American self-examination and self-criticism. The revelations are being pondered for what they say about how democracy sometimes allows human venality to thrive and vital state secrets to perish. But there is another lesson in the whole shocking, sordid affair. It is a reminder that spying comes naturally to the Soviet Union in a way that is difficult for Americans to understand...
...that make up the majority of stars in the galaxy were long thought to be too unstable to support planets that could settle into regular orbits and give rise to life. But if the sun is part of a celestial duet, says Raup, then "the whole evolutionary process may thrive on this kind of disturbance...
Because they are natural food scavengers, roaches prefer to live near kitchens and other food areas. All breeds, except the Oriental cockroach, thrive in warm temperatures--around 30 degree celsius. The German roaches live best in warm climates, but most other breeds prefer damp areas like sewers...
...find stores and restaurants looking for the visitor with large amounts of money to spend. Several new hotels have risen on the sites of old tobacco warehouses, and nouveau entertainment spots are all the rage. Notwithstanding this culture shock, the predominant tobacco, horse, and farming industries continue to thrive and provide the all-important "flavor" lost to more popular tourist areas further south...
Even as coca production continues to thrive in Peru and Bolivia, it has also begun to explode in previously undeveloped areas, such as Brazil's Amazon River Basin, a wilderness of lush jungles and rivers that is almost two-thirds the size of the U.S. Three years ago, policemen noticed that relatively primitive Indians were suddenly sporting modern clothes and traveling in motorboats. The peasants, they learned, had been pressured by Colombians into cultivating epadu, a shrubby small tree that can grow in the forest and attain a height of 10 ft. Epadu contains about 40% less active alkaloid than...