However two companies, Ionica and Scottish Power, have already tried and failed to make a flourishing business out of offering wireless access to consumers.
And the glitzy apartment blocks going up in the port of Vlore indicate that shipping illegal migrants across the Adriatic is still a flourishing business.
Big business may be flourishing, but small business is still in recession.
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The logic is hard to ignore: the narcotics trade is a multi-billion-baht business flourishing at a time when the economy is still depressed.
AfBAA founder and chairman Tarek Ragheb says that Africa requires a well-developed business aviation industry to support the continent's flourishing economies and realize its business potential.
Barbara Vanderkolk Gardner runs a flourishing interior-design business in New Jersey.
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That business has been flourishing for 19 years and is now mostly run by my wife and two sons.
Ms. Gardner says her residential business is now flourishing in Sarasota, Fla.
African airline start-ups, local carriers and even international airlines are out to prove that jet travel can extend beyond deep-pocketed passengers to West Africa's flourishing middle-class and business travelers.
Open-source firms are flourishing in databases (Ingres, for instance), business intelligence (JasperSoft), customer-relationship management and other business applications (SugarCRM, Alfresco).
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First, it was clear that the agency business especially large global agencies like these are flourishing in the new communications world order.
With the expansion from women's clothes to take in wallpaper, furniture, bedding, lampshades and bath products, the business and its 500 shops across the world seemed set for a flourishing future.
For evidence, look at the cover story in this issue: Few industries appear more dreadful than the airline business, yet JetBlue and its Irish and British counterparts have found ways to create flourishing enterprises.
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