They arrived with nothing, prospered through wit and hard work, and often settled permanently abroad.
Why has an institution abandoned in country after country through the ages, survived and prospered here?
The workers did not see why they should concede so much while Brynwood prospered.
Chinese makers of the silicon wafers that conduct electricity directly from sunlight proliferated and prospered.
But no society in history has prospered without public investment, infrastructure, law and regulation.
The fourth, Mayotte, stayed French and has prospered as a strategic base and fancy holiday destination.
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Before 2000, under the PRI, crime groups prospered, but the national government ultimately called the shots.
Slugs and seals prospered but bees, birds and mammals struggled, with bats particularly hard hit.
Sir Donald prospered as a stockbroker and for many years helped to select Australia's cricket team.
Herman's childhood, upwardly and downwardly mobile, as his father's affairs prospered or, more often, failed.
Armstrong prospered by thinking several moves ahead, and it's hard to believe there's no angle here.
These have prospered for the same reason that the industrial companies have done badly: conservatism.
Qatar has prospered in the last several years with continued high real GDP growth in 2011.
Practically all countries that have subsidised their farmers (northern Europe, the United States, Japan) have prospered.
Lastly, to the extent the Nordics have prospered, they have done so un-Nordically, by curbing the state.
So much has the region prospered that the Highlands no longer qualify for new Objective 1 aid.
Mr Clinton, for his part, has prospered by cold-shouldering the multiculturalist left and sticking to the centre.
Having prospered first with coffee and then with industrialisation, it is now reinventing itself in the services sector.
The recipe by which Americans have prospered lies not in some sort of state action but in opportunity.
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Unlike other eurozone states, Malta has prospered in recent years, and the economy did not dominate the campaign.
Real estate developer Nagouri said he comes from humble beginnings and has prospered beyond his father's wildest dreams.
Both he and the company have prospered, and according to some accounts Mr Arnault is France's richest man.
Can you point to nations that have prospered with protectionism, particularly when compared to similar nations with free trade?
Even some old family firms, which had prospered more by exploiting political connections than being competitive, shed loss-making subsidiaries.
The company prospered after its 2004 spinoff from Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ).
"No monopoly company that I knew of had ever gone to a fully competitive environment and prospered, " he says.
Despite high energy prices, tighter money, and economic slowdown in America, the economies of the Europe Union have prospered.
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Not for a free people who have prospered because of it, at least.
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Only an ingrate complains that those who brought us these incredible advances prospered.
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He has been in deep trouble before and not only survived, but prospered.
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