Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number of prestigious European chefs and restaurateurs opening branches in the U.S. Currently the brothers provide inspiration, advice and some financial backing to Michael's Waterside Inn, a superb and comfortably inviting restaurant in Santa Barbara, Calif. The inn, which opened in 1984 and is now beginning to flourish, appeals to such notables as Actor-Producer Michael Douglas and TV Chef Julia Child, a part-time Santa Barbara resident who rates the cuisine "truly excellent...
During a decade of tremendous growth, Sunbelt cities attracted millions of people from the depressed urban centers of the North. All the ills of urban ghettos went with the newcomers, and many Southern cities, with their underclass populations suddenly exploding, became ripe environments for gangs to develop and flourish...
...only his latest career. Last year he was fired from his job as a sales manager at the Philadelphia office of Shearson Lehman Bros., a New York-based brokerage firm, after authorities began investigating % large unreported currency transactions at the company. Last week that investigation finished with a flourish: a federal grand jury indicted Shearson Lehman, Cantley and six other people on charges of laundering $1.2 million for an illegal gambling syndicate...
...Sullivan's Patience. + Appropriately cast as the Solicitor, Rehnquist made his one-night-only appearance during the finale of the first act. Having been persuaded by the heroine to rig a raffle so that she can win the man she loves, Rehnquist stepped forward and, with much judicial flourish, presented a large bowl filled with extra tickets. The Justice, who reappeared for a solo curtain call (Oyez! Oyez!), turned out to be a real trouper. Reports Savoyards' Nancy Low: "He offered to bring his own costume...
...Fathers in their Enlightenment glow certainly considered liberty a universal principle. They also considered the emerging U.S. as a model of liberty for the rest of the world. But they had no illusions about how easy it might be to establish democratic governments elsewhere. Jefferson questioned whether democracy could flourish in all circumstances, suggesting that it might be effective only at certain times and places where conditions allowed. Today in most parts of the world it does not exist or is not understood. It is difficult to achieve in tribal, rigidly hierarchical or other traditional societies. It requires a sophisticated...