Either way, the saplings took root and flourished, and eventually grew into a cathedral grove.
But Mr Paulson has survived and flourished in one of the most fiercely competitive environments in the world.
The family survived and flourished despite expropriation of much of its assets under Chile's left-wing President Salvador Allende in the early 1970s.
Provera said Pirelli, which started life as a family-run business and flourished into the world's fifth-largest tyre maker, is typical of Italian entrepreneurship.
Vacant land was sold at public auction, and speculation, fraud and corruption flourished as buying and selling lots became the biggest game in town.
And in his time, he strongly defended the BBC's independence and it flourished creatively, with the launch of breakfast television, Newsnight and EastEnders, and the Live Aid concert broadcast.
"He was the most natural leader of men and soldiers flourished under his command, " he said.
There, she embraced Dutch society and freedoms and quickly flourished in a true rag-to-riches immigrant tale.
However, there are companies that have survived, and even flourished, in this era of decline for headphone manufacturers.
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This impressive collection of pyramids, galleries, plazas and palaces flourished during the Late Classic Period of Mayan history (600 to 900AD).
Like fixing any jumble, software gets organized by putting like things in boxes--a process called "abstraction"--and it flourished in the coming years through techniques like object-oriented programming, which shapes the Internet's Java language.
Anti-Nafta rhetoric doesn't play well in El Paso, San Antonio and Houston, which have become gateway cities for commerce with Latin America and have flourished since the North American Free Trade Agreement passed Congress in 1993.
Services with cool-sounding names like Napster, Kazaa, Limewire, Grokster, Morpheus, Gnutella, BitTorrent and MegaUpload flourished among the digital cognoscenti in the days when broadband Internet penetration had just started to gain real traction here and abroad.
Without the fires, shrubs and seedlings flourished.
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Its devotees are like members of the U.S. Ski team in the late 1970s, a hardy bunch that grew up carving turns on the rutted ice of eastern mountains and later flourished on the sweet powder of the destination resorts out west.
Mom and pop shops flourished, the market was fragmented and studios had a lot of power.
The much-maligned Fernando Torres, back in the side because of injuries to Daniel Sturridge and Didier Drogba, flourished early on and almost set up goals for both Juan Mata and Lampard.
And as their fantasies flourished so did their fear and fury at the thought that he might pick the other as the ultimate winner.
IPOs and common stock offerings flourished, as did venture capital and angel investing.
And the genre has flourished, allowing fans to adapt beloved stories and tailor existing literature to fit their own preferences, said Francesca Coppa, an English professor at Muhlenberg College and founding board member of the Organization for Transformative Works.
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We know that carbon dioxide has been a much larger fraction of the earth's atmosphere than it is today, and the geological record shows that life flourished on land and in the oceans during those times.
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Fujitsu and Panasonic have flourished in the Japanese market but struggled to expand abroad.
In the Ottoman empire (and in some post-Ottoman places), Christian and Jewish minorities flourished in business.
Not just television, but also private radio stations and newspapers have flourished in Pakistan over the past few years.
This industry has flourished and like so many others has gone international sprouting many different schools or centers of leadership.
He is credited with moulding the side into a fighting unit and youngsters like Harbhajan Singh and Virender Sewhag flourished under him.
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There was poverty too, but those middle and top earners flourished.
Visa requirements were liberalised across the region and trade has flourished.
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