Word: thrives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hearty chicken soup in the kitchen. His lean, 6-ft. 3-in. frame draped across a wing chair, McGuane exudes the tempered confidence of hard-won experience. While many of his erstwhile drinking partners have fallen by the wayside, he has managed not only to survive but to thrive in his role of gentleman rancher and Marlboro Man of letters. "I guess I'm kind of like lip cancer," he says with a wry smile. "I just won't go away...
...could a firm long heralded for its go-go brilliance stumble so badly? Somehow the company that transformed the advertising industry worldwide during the 1980s seems to have lost its alchemist's touch. Deepening the management mystery, Saatchi & Saatchi profits fell while its global advertising business continued to thrive: the company's revenues reached $1.5 billion this year, up from $1.35 billion...
...Saatchi & Saatchi wandered afield, its management seemed to become increasingly inept. The company's debt swelled to $250 million while costs mounted unchecked. At the consulting firms, key managers, skeptical about whether their operations could thrive in the Saatchi confederacy, began to quit...
...right to claim that somehow I am less of a loyal American because of my commitment to Israel. Every American, regardless of other ethnic or national ties, is equally American. That said, I would fight to the ends of the earth to make sure Israeli democracy continues to thrive...
...lake's trout will be eaten by them. Wildlife biologists scoff at such speculation, and city water officials insist that there is nothing in the water to harm humans. But until the Great White Pelican Mystery is solved, worry and rumor, unlike the birds, seem certain to thrive...