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...feisty as ever, the Prime Minister seems to thrive on crisis...
Tourists can park their cars on Judas Street or munch a snack on Manna Street. Souvenir sellers thrive. In 1970 the town earned a net profit of $3 million, which helped to finance a new village swimming pool and sports center. For the 1980 production, package deals for tourists cost up to $200 and include the play plus food and two nights' lodging...
...Mexico in January 1979 he said: "The church wishes to stay free with regard to the competing [political] systems, in order to opt only for man." These views presumably reflect the fact that one reason the church in John Paul's native Poland has been able to thrive is that it has kept strictly apart from the country's Communist rulers...
...attending Columbia University as a graduate student last year, I can only say that these radicals, when it gets to the "nitty-gritty," use Marxist rhetoric to defend the business establishment. Their real motivation is a kind of disguised and aggressive defense of the president status quo. They thrive on injustice, because it gives them the only power they will ever know. Jerome Minot...
...feet at its deepest; one fisherman's tale has it that a ship's crew was able to play baseball on a shoal after a storm. The Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current converge at the site and circulate a hearty brew of nutrients on which plankton thrive and proliferate. Fish in turn feed on the plankton and spawn seasonally in the shoals, coming from as far north as the Arctic, as far south as the Carolina coast...