Word: thriving
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...years later he was offered a post he could not refuse: the directorship of BBC-2, Britain's new high-brow channel. His stewardship produced such series as The Forsyte Saga, Civilisation, The Ascent of Man and America. Attenborough, the brother of Actor-Director Richard Attenborough, did not thrive on administrative duties, however, and in 1977 he began the three years of work that would produce his own series. Life on Earth was first shown on the BBC in 1979 and has since gone through two reruns, receiving universal praise from British critics. The reason for so much success...
...thrive in countries that are economically underdeveloped and chaotic, socially decaying and often in or near a state...
Washington reporters thrive on the kind of high political drama that is the stuff of this week's cover story on President Reagan's Frank Merriwell rescue of his plan to sell AWACS planes to Saudi Arabia. As members of TIME'S Washington bureau discovered, the political arithmetic becomes vexingly complex when so much is at stake. Every day trade-offs are offered, bargains are made, alliances break up and form again. As the momentum shifts back and forth, counting noses becomes more and more difficult. For White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett, who tracked the tactics...
...Schmidt has found the French President's public support helpful in rejecting demands by the left wing of his Social Democratic Party that he renege on the 1979 NATO decision to base new U.S. medium-range missiles in Western Europe. In Britain, where anti-NATO feelings thrive in the Labor opposition, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government welcomes Mitterrand's position. "Such a firm stand is very helpful coming from a Socialist," a top official explains. "It enables us to point out to the left wing of the Labor Party that not all Socialists go along with...
Despite the psychologists' exertions, the malady is utterly subjective and therefore unpredictable. One policeman will thrive in an assignment that may turn another into an alcoholic. In 1971 a Wall Street Journal survey found that the most physically draining and mentally numbing jobs were working at a foundry furnace, selling subway tokens, lifting lids on a steel-mill oven, and removing hair and fat from hog carcasses. Yet one worker took both pride and pleasure in the fact that he could clean a hog carcass in 45 seconds. Incidentally, it is also worth mentioning that being unemployed...