Word: thriving
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...can’t just take somebody who has just had so many difficulties in childhood and throw her into Harvard and expect them to just thrive and be wonderful and not need support,” Bloomkatz says...
...insurers were crushed by falling stock markets and will be the first to benefit from an upturn. This Italian insurer could have two added bounces: it's better capitalized than many rivals and its messy ownership structure has just been simplified. LOSERS BAE: You might think defense contractors would thrive during wartime. But Britain's BAE, maker of military jets and submarines and a part-owner of Airbus, is caught in a war of its own. It wants to partner with an American firm, possibly Boeing, but that could conflict with its joint ventures in Europe. TOTALFINAELF: With the majority...
...could have done something more,” said captain Jamie Hagerman. “I feel like in a lot of the games where we’ve just dominated we felt we left everything on the ice. And I think for us as a team we thrive on making sure we leave nothing to chance...
Other unlikely winners are emerging from equally unlikely venues. Riesling excels in New York's Finger Lakes region, where Konstantin Frank first planted European grape varieties in the 1950s. No one thought they would survive, much less thrive. Today Dr. Konstantin Frank's Rieslings are some of the best in the U.S. Thomas Jefferson, an aficionado of French wines, would have been proud of the Bordeaux-style reds produced by Virginia's Linden Vineyards. And last November three of Texas winemaker Becker Vineyard's products made Wine Spectator's list of the top 12 U.S. regional wines...
...Insecurity about our own intellectualism, more than a desire to whine, drives us to support activist organizations that fight for “enlightened” social causes. We become part of the intellectual elite that cares about things like AIDS in Africa and the living wage, and we thrive on the mystique...