Word: thriving
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...must focus on volume by hawking me-too products to millions of less-wealthy customers, private banks can rack up bountiful revenues by offering a wide range of lucrative services to a smaller number of rich and superrich clients. It's not uncommon for a top private banker to thrive with as few as a dozen clients, who are happy to pay richly for personal guidance on such esoteric matters as, say, reducing taxes, setting up a low-risk-high-return hedge-fund portfolio, investing in emerging-markets property or establishing a charitable foundation. "The profitability comes in because...
...pursue economic reforms to survive" and he put many of his military officers in charge of new enterprises like tourism. In After Fidel, Latell writes that Raul, "unlike his brother, has never been motivated by an ego-charged quest for fame and glory or internationalist gratification. He does not thrive on conflict and confrontation as Fidel has since childhood. He worries more about the economic hardships the Cuban people endures, and is likely to more flexible and compassionate in power...
...wanted her to thrive as a person," he says. "I wanted her to read challenging works. I didn't want her to get isolated and overwhelmed and all these things you get with children." He recalls buying her books on home management and offering to cut back on his work so she could return to nursing. She refused, he says, telling him, "I'm a mother...
...year-old Jewish grandmother in Boynton Beach, Fla., with all the time I want to take walks, read books, and lounge in the sun. But for now, I crave pressure and intensity. Contrary to America’s stereotypical slacker college lifestyle, many of my Harvard peers and I thrive because of our refusal to ease off of the college throttle. So, Professor Lewis, I appreciate your message. But I just can’t do it any other way.Bari M. Schwartz ’07, a Crimson senior news editor is an East Asian studies concentrator in Mather House...
...week-long courses for incoming freshmen held at the start of each school year. It was work that he “truly loved,” according to Megan.“The program was enormously successful under his leadership, and it will continue to thrive because he developed such a good model,” Megan said.Students remembered his devotion to their well-being—his time-honoured fire safety speech, delivered to every cast that performed on the Agassiz stage, became a tradition in the theatre community.“Alan would take the stage...