Word: thriving
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Antidrug activists fear that pot clubs, if allowed to thrive, could open the way to further relaxation of drug policy. Steve Dnistrian of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America claims that heartrending medical stories are a being used as a smoke screen "by people whose agenda is to radically change drug policy in America." On that point, at least, Peron seems in agreement. "This is not about marijuana as medicine," he says. "This is a cultural...
...cars, computers, film or steel. Don't even mention rice. But last week we finally found something the Japanese truly need: made-in-the-U.S.A. management style. It's the brutally honest kind, which has littered boardrooms with the carcasses of middle managers--and incidentally, enabled us to thrive in a viciously competitive global economy. Europeans are now buying it by the caseload, but Japan has been a country in denial. Its tattered stock market and eight-year malaise have left this once feared economy in desperate need of action...
Just as John Riggins had his Hogs and Phil Simms and Ottis Anderson had their Jumbo Elliott and William Roberts, Linden and Menick thrive on the presence of their men up front...
...coming quarters. And that is precisely why Asia's problems are a world event. It means big companies won't make as much money as their sky-high stock prices demand. And that gets to the heart of the problem. It's not so much that companies can't thrive without exports to Asia; it's that ebullient investors have put such absurdly high prices on stocks that even a minor disappointment in earnings will let out a lot of air. Consider Citicorp, which gets about 20% of its profit from Asia. Cut the Asian profit in half...
Flora and fauna are showing the impact of a hotter planet too. Animals that thrive in warmer climates, like the Edith's checkerspot butterfly in the American West, have begun to extend their range northward, while cold-loving creatures such as brook trout have vanished in some areas. Plants are pushing to higher latitudes and higher altitudes. Tropical diseases, including malaria and dengue fever, have begun to move into regions that were once too cold for their insect carriers...