Word: flourished
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...helped democracy flourish in the world's most populous Muslim nation is Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a retired army general who, if early polls are an indication, could next year become the first Indonesian President to win re-election. Since coming to power in 2004, S.B.Y., as he is known, has presided with integrity, with fewer political scandals than normal to sully his rule. In the resource-rich territory of Aceh, S.B.Y. spearheaded a historic accord that has brought peace to a former civil-war battleground. Despite the fact that Indonesia gave birth to Jemaah Islamiah, an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist...
...certainly true of the CIA analyst played by John Malkovich. Osborne Cox: his very name is steeped in two denominations of old money. After decades at the Agency, he has perfected the look and the attitude of a career spook. He wears a smart dark suit and that inevitable flourish of the house eccentric, a bow tie. Osborne's Olympian contempt for his superiors, his overcareful pronunciation of French words ("mem-wah"), the modest shock value of a Princeton man spicing every sentence with the f-word - all these mark him as hailing from that generation and class of American...
There are laws in both the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, plus international trade regulations that protect endangered and threatened cactus, and also govern the sale and movement of other cactus species. But since most cactus plants flourish in desert regions with low populations and infrequent law enforcement, catching smugglers is a challenge, often made even more difficult in Mexico by poverty: local residents sell plants for a pittance to smugglers who then sell them to collectors at much higher prices, according to experts...
...coalition partners accused Musharraf of "mismanaging the economy" and allowing terrorism to flourish. But if over the coming months the weak civilian partners fail to arrest the decline of the economy and the rise of militancy, they may face a galling nostalgia for the one-man rule of the Musharraf years...
...sport's bandwagon followers manage to spend hours discussing endless inanities about the turn of a ball or the long hair of a wicketkeeper. If India produces any world-class contenders in, say, chess or shooting or racing, it is a tribute to their doggedness and talent that they flourish despite the specter of cricket looming above them like some toxic cloud. We would do ourselves a huge favor by declaring a moratorium on cricket for maybe 10 years, diverting our attention and money to all the other hopelessly funded sports in India, and watching the cricketers earn a living...