America had ridden the crest of the information revolution to unprecedented power and prosperity, and the military wanted a piece of the action.
The Benedettis begin as peasants and become wealthy landowners, but their prosperity and power derive from an original sin, committed in the seventeen-nineties, for which future generations have never received full absolution.
During the Cold War, leaders recognized that a robust energy supply was a sign of power, economic strength and prosperity.
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The popular sense of English difference, however much it may have been tinged with Calvinist zeal, ultimately rested not on theological but on social foundations: the unprecedented prosperity and power of the first sizeable modern economy.
By contrast, in poorer countries the American university is the pinnacle of the education mountain, offering a degree that leads both to economic prosperity and to political power.
The best and the brightest economists, politicians and central bankers promised such flexibility would give them the power they needed to increase the general prosperity by mitigating the business cycle, keeping unemployment low, and improving the trade balance.
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To me, it seems the choice is obvious, the FairTax, bringing the single greatest transfer of power OUT of DC and back TO the people and economic prosperity or continue with the same old, same old and keep getting the same results!
American citizens are waking up to how vastly the world has changed, how potentially vast is citizen power, and how we can transform the world to one of prosperity and peace.
That must always be our North Star -- the ability of our people to reach their potential, to make wise choices with our resources, to enlarge the prosperity that serves as a wellspring for our power, and to live the values that we hold so dear.
It is also a reasonable corollary of this hypothesis that golden ages of freedom and prosperity occur when events and technological innovations right the balance of power between the state and individuals.
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"If I am confirmed by the Senate I will do everything in my power, in collaboration with my Fed colleagues to help assure the continued prosperity and stability of the American economy, " Bernanke told the press gathering.
He thought trade essential to prosperity and wanted friendship between Austria, Britain and France to balance the power of Prussia and Russia.
These were followed, more recently, by technologies of prosperity like the steam engine, the assembly line, and complex systems of communication, power and finance.
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