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  • It is a thriving town, and the outlet for the trade of the Sivas vilayet.

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  • It is a thriving trading centre and port.

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  • Portrush has a thriving trade in salmon.

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  • In addition to operating horse drawn busses and carts, a thriving livery stable and saddlery business was operated.

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  • The town developed into a thriving port during the 18th century when the main activity was the shipping of locally produced coal.

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  • This fascination with old-school photography has Polaroid enthusiasts wondering if the company will revitalize its once thriving line of instant film cameras.

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  • Breckenridge, with its historic museums and thriving arts district, attracts people who want a bit of intellectual stimulation with their winter sport vacation.

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  • With several television and film credits to her name, as well as a thriving music career, Miranda Cosgrove is a name we can expect to hear a lot of in the future.

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  • In a city, this was comparatively easy, as there used to be thriving garment districts and so people had connections.

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  • This designer can be found in higher end department stores and various boutiques throughout the States, but Tartine also features a thriving e-boutique.

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  • Located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Pikes Peak Community College (PPCC) is a thriving community of campuses and satellite sites providing higher education to first-time and returning college students.

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  • If you go away to college, there is the education of living away from home and thriving as a part of campus life.

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  • If your dog is not thriving on his current dog food, try this one.

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  • It is hardy in Britain, thriving in peaty or leafy soils in partial shade.

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  • It is a beautiful lawn tree, flowering while the tree is still small; fully grown it is of picturesque habit, from 30 to 50 feet high, thriving best in a deep light soil in a sheltered spot.

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  • Griselinia - There are certain exposed spots in our shore gardens where even the toughest of shrubs are apt to fail, and in this little group we have the best of all plants for such a position, thriving in any soil, and sea-wind proof.

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  • China, and is hardy, thriving in light moist humus, and covered during early summer with white funnel-shaped flowers in small clusters, followed by fragrant oval berries, at first red, but black and sweet when ripe.

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  • G. repens rosea is a pretty dwarf rock plant, thriving also in borders, flowering long in summer and autumn, and with foliage of a pleasant glaucous color.

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  • It is a moisture-loving plant, thriving in peat or leafy soil in a half-shady place.

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  • Ipomopsis - Graceful biennials from California, thriving in light, dry, and warm soils in the milder districts.

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  • It requires much the same treatment as Shortia, thriving in well-drained sandy loam and peat, in cool and moist but not wet or shady places.

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  • America, hardy, thriving in light soil, preferring peat, and are suitable for the margins of groups of American shrubs and for low parts of rock gardens.

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  • Lomaria Procera - A handsome large-growing Fern, thriving in the open air in the milder parts of Britain, particularly where the atmosphere is moist, as in Ireland and the south-west of England.

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  • China, as yet little known, but thriving in high ground at Haslemere, in Surrey.

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  • It is a charming plant, thriving best in sandy or peaty soil under shrubs, growing only a few inches high.

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  • For this purpose the most suitable are M. falcata and elegans, both vigorous herbs with yellow flowers, thriving in almost any kind of soil.

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  • It is a small evergreen shrub, bearing in summer numerous urn-shaped flowers about 1 1/2 inches long and of a brilliant scarlet, thriving in a mixture of sandy peat and loam, in a moist sheltered spot with perfect drainage.

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  • C. monspeliensis is a pretty dwarf plant of the Primrose order, about 6 inches high, usually biennial in our gardens, thriving on dry sunny parts of the rock garden, in sandy soil, and among dwarf plants.

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  • N. physaloides is a pretty Peruvian half-hardy annual, about 2 feet high, of stout growth, bearing in summer numerous showy blue and white bell-like flowers, and thriving in an open position in light soil.

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  • Orchis Laxiflora - A pretty species, 1 foot to 18 inches high, with loose spikes of rich purplish-red flowers, opening in May and June, and thriving in a moist spot in the rock garden.

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  • Phyllodoce - A dwarf evergreen mountain shrub with pretty bell flowers, thriving only in cool parts of a good rock garden.

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  • Admirable plants for picturesque groups, very hardy, easily increased by division, thriving in any soil, but the foliage effect is finer on deep, rich soil.

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  • Is a good lawn tree, thriving in towns better than most conifers; it also bears cutting without injury, though naturally of a fine pyramidal habit.

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  • Recently, the German traveler, Dr Purpus, and various American botanists have found in the mountains of Arkansas, Texas, Colorado, and Arizona a rich variety of hardy Cacti thriving at elevations of 5,000 to 8,000 feet.

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  • It is a most desirable plant, thriving best in light warm soils, and is suited either for the rock-garden or dry banks.

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  • There is also a pure white, and various other forms thriving in moist situations in a deep light soil.

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  • It is later in flowering than other Camassias, thriving in a light rich soil.

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  • It has long been grown in botanic and choice collections, thriving in a shady position such as may be found in a good rock garden, in moist peaty soil, with here and there a soft sandstone for its roots to run among.

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  • Rhododendron Falconeri - A noble kind thriving in Cornish gardens, with oblong leaves about 10 inches long, coated beneath with reddish down, dark green, slightly downy and curiously wrinkled above.

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  • Few are very effective for gardens; some are brilliant border or rock plants, thriving in warm soils.

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  • They are charming for the rock garden, thriving in a light peaty soil.

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  • There is a white and a purple variety, both handsome plants, thriving in almost any soil.

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  • Sneeze-weed (Helenium) - Vigorous and showy plants, flowering in autumn, and thriving in any soil, and, where rightly used, excellent plants.

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  • America, nearly allied to Loosestrife, and thriving under the same conditions.

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  • The Sumachs are not difficult as to soil or cultivation, thriving in ordinary garden soils, and rather enjoying poor and dry soils, some of them being suitable, therefore, for grouping on dry banks where little else will grow.

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  • Scarlet Sumach (Rhus Glabra) - A distinct very hardy, bushy kind, with smooth rather small leaves, thriving in any poor dry soil, the leaves taking a very brilliant color in autumn.

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  • This tree, thriving in wet and marshy places, is more at home in Great Britain than some of the American trees.

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  • Tassel Tree (Acacia) - Beautiful shrubs and trees, thriving in warmer countries, but a few grown out of doors do well in parts of England.

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  • T. grandiflora has leaves prettily colored and veined like Heuchera Richardsoni, and spikes of small yellowish bell-like flowers, thriving in any soil.

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  • Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus) - A Chinese hardy tree, thriving in the southern parts of England.

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  • Both are of easy culture, thriving in open borders of good deep soil, and increased by seeds, cuttings, or division of the roots.

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  • I have often seen it thriving where the air was pure and the soil suitable; and it is excellent for a moist rock garden, growing rapidly, and forming a charming fringe to groups of small alpine shrubs, on cool parts of the rock garden.

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  • It is hardy in Britain, thriving best in sandy soils beside water, but it will grow almost anywhere except in hot, dry places.

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  • It is one of the finest dark kinds, thriving in exposed open water, and effective in the distance.

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  • Rosea - Another stout grower, thriving in deep water, to which its long slender stems are suited.

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  • Nymphaea Alba Tuberosa - The vigorous Water-Lily of the United States, thriving in deep water, lifting its flowers high out of the water, and spreading rapidly by long tuberous offsets.

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  • Wild Irishman (Discaria) - Spiny shrubs allied to Colletia an Ceanothus, and only hardy in the open in the more favoured parts of the south and south-west, though thriving against walls near London and farther north.

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  • A well-flowered plant is charming, and lasts for some weeks is charming, and lasts for some weeks in beauty, thriving in a peaty soil.

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  • It may look droopy for a day or two because of transplant shock, but soon it will be thriving.

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  • Monitor frequently to be sure the plants are thriving and make sure to add additional protection in the event of bad weather.

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  • As one of America's thriving musical art forms, this style of music continues to prevail as it drawns in musicians and music-lovers on a daily basis.

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  • In large part due to guitarist Dean DeLeo, Stone Temple Pilots (STP) has carved a niche into the United States' thriving music industry and fueled the amateur musician's desire to emulate their style of rock music.

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  • In today's thriving do-in-yourself market, the dream to own your own hardware store is attainable and without franchise or royalty fees.

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  • When she later met and married entrepreneur Steve Shriver, Andrea's little home business quickly became a thriving company, not as the Eco Lips brand, but as a company who manufactured lip balms for other brands.

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  • Ideally, soil is a living, thriving ecosystem, with complex interactions between garden plants, earthworms, microorganisms and fungi.

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  • Organic gardeners, however, realize just how much is going on in that soil and view their garden as a thriving ecosystem.

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  • It has since grown to become a thriving with several stores and an online presence.

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  • A booming industrial and cultural city, Dallas is home to many skyscrapers and a thriving museum district.

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  • Because of its desirable location on the lakeshore, however, the Crystal Beach community was eventually restored and today is a thriving vacation community of cottages and cabins.

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  • Build your civilization from small huts and basic farms to thriving cultural centers with massive pyramids, statues and temples.

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  • If a baby continues to lose weight or does not gain weight as expected, he or she is probably not thriving.

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  • If your student isn't being challenged or simply isn't thriving in a traditional school environment, consider homeschooling for high school students.

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  • Gold Canyon differs from many independent-seller based companies in that it offers a thriving online store where anyone can purchase Gold Canyon products.

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  • Original owners Walter and Cordelia Knott, along with their children, turned a small farm into a thriving business.

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  • This district is the headquarters of a thriving trade in pigs.

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  • The first county, St Croix, was established in 1839, and in the succeeding years thriving settlements were established at St Paul and Stillwater.

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  • Its capital and seat of government is Doletabad (Dowletabad), a thriving little city, with a population of about 5000, situated at an elevation of 5680 ft., 38 m.

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  • Antofagasta is the seaport for a railway running to Oruro, Bolivia, and is the only available outlet for the trade of the south-western departments of that republic. The smelting works for the neighbouring silver mines are located here, and a thriving trade with the inland mining towns is carried on.

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  • Effective composite plants, thriving in good garden soil.

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  • Showy composite plants, thriving in good garden soil.

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  • The population of the immigrant colony was 792,666, consisting mainly of thriving and prosperous peasants with occupancy rights in holdings of about 28 acres each.

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  • It is one of the most thriving towns in the Levant, with a purely Greek population distinguished for its commercial, industrial and maritime enterprise.

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  • By T086 Steyning was a thriving port.

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  • It is the chief port for the Persian province of Laristan (under Fars), and has a thriving trade with Bahrein and the Arab coast.

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  • Path, Manaos and Iquitos are now thriving commercial centres.

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  • They are rearing eight thriving cygnets, from an original nine, which we think may include four from our old Mrs Swan.

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  • This stretch of the river bank is now largely pedestrianized and has been transformed into a thriving public space.

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  • Port Welcomes New Tenants The Port's thriving property portfolio has seen strong demand for its wide range of units in early 2004.

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  • For a city of relatively small proportions Oxford has a large and thriving music scene.

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  • Castle Rising was once a thriving seaport, and pictures from the 18th century show that the Castle was still accessible by sea.

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  • The site was cleared by demolition in the 1980s and has since spawned a thriving natural habitat.

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  • Thriving in this system of oligarchy (rule of the few) that we do requires a pragmatic, Machiavellian stratagem.

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  • There are Sandwich, Common and Arctic nesting terns and a thriving colony of common and gray seals.

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  • Lancaster has a thriving modern University which has brought a new vibrancy to this historic city.

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  • Padua early became a populous and thriving city, thanks to its excellent breed of horses and the wool of its sheep. Its men fought for the Romans at Cannae, and the city became so powerful that it was reported able to raise two hundred thousand fighting men.

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  • But as menageries are supported for the public and in most cases by the public, such a site is impractical, and if the soil, drainage and exposure are reasonably good, experience shows that a thriving collection may be maintained in the immediate vicinity of large towns.

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  • Soon to be rewarded with a thriving, buzzing industry to revitalize the local economy.

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  • The Oxford team has found that 2,500 years ago the area housed a thriving, bustling settlement, ringed by timber fences.

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  • Poole has a greyhound and speedway stadium, an aquarium complex, a thriving Arts Center and water parks.

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  • You'll find out about your unique place in the body of Christ and how to surmount the obstacles that keep you from thriving.

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  • A thriving steel industry grew up around Toledo as the water in the river Tagus has special properties for the tempering the steel.

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  • The work of the Unit is underpinned by the belief that businesses need thriving communities and communities need thriving businesses.

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  • The UK feminist zine culture appears to be thriving - and anyone can support it.

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  • The biologists would like to do more research on the wildlife thriving in the depths of the ocean's abysses.

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  • Whether you have a thriving basket business or are just beginning to dabble in the industry, buying wholesale basket supplies can save you a lot of money that you can pass on to your customers.

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  • There's a huge selection of brand new furniture as well as a thriving antiques scene.

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  • Your chickens will be healthiest and thriving if you give them a space where they can scratch for bugs and peck, but you can also buy coops large enough for them to live comfortably year round.

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  • Dallas is a thriving metropolis of music, art, fine dining, and big business.

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  • The University of North Carolina at Wilmington's thriving campus makes this a college town, and along the riverwalk in downtown Wilmington, there is a surprising mix of big business and upscale eateries.

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  • When the gift giving season is in full swing, sales are thriving for some lucky brands.

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  • This was just the beginning of the multi-billion dollar digital camera industry that is thriving today.

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  • It is, however, a little particular as to soil, thriving best in rocky debris, and refusing to grow where there is much lime.

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  • A thriving community of gamers still create interactive fiction titles even to this day.

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  • Becoming a part of this thriving community through online resources is as easy as a click of the mouse.

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  • There is much more to this thriving city than the glitz and glamour of the Las Vegas Strip.

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  • Las Vegas is a large community that has many thriving neighboring communities including Henderson, Summerlin, and Nellis Air Force Base.

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  • If you want to become a home inspector you should know that you are about to enter a viable profession that is oftentimes in high demand, especially when the real estate market is thriving.

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  • In 2004, Gwen split from No Doubt to focus on her thriving career as a solo artist.

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  • Shortly after, Beyonce turned her energy to her developing her thriving solo career.

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  • Whether the economy is thriving or struggling, the desire to score gorgeous clothing on a budget always remains strong.

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  • Many jobs are created and retained in these communities that are once again thriving and growing.

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  • Unless you have a thriving dance community where you live that is big enough to support a dance costume shop, your best bet for finding costumes will probably be online.

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  • Cupid.com, which offers a thriving Asian dating community.

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  • You're shopping for a Nine West organizer tote because you're a contemporary female thriving in the professional world, yet you're not willing to give up your love of trend-setting in order to fade into the corporate mold.

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  • Even after you've made a decision, it's a good idea to periodically assess whether your child is thriving at the child care center and determine if any changes are needed.

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  • Finally, parents need to observe their children's progress and learning style to determine if a child is learning and thriving in a particular school setting.

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  • Many parents feel that their type of parenting works just fine for their family, and who can argue with a parent whose child grows up to become valedictorian of his college class and later CEO of a thriving company?

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  • SoapZone remains a thriving fan community with an established fan base for favorite characters and definitive opinions.

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  • Within a couple of years of its "birth", Fredericksburg had grown into a thriving community of almost a thousand residents, and it had been made the county seat of Gillespie County.

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  • From this small beginning Brandt managed to build a thriving company, which passed on to his sons upon his death in 1879.

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  • They are immensely friendly and amiable, thriving on contact and communication with others both one on one and in group situations.

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  • This aspect of the law has created a thriving industry niche for private investigators hired by employers to videotape claimants engaging in work, sports or strenuous physical activity despite their claims of being disabled.

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  • With these statistics in mind, you can see why the home-based doggie day care business is a thriving market for entrepreneurs.

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  • Yeast is a relatively simple fungus, thriving off starch (sugar) in a dark, moist place like your gut.

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  • After that initial sucker-punch to the thriving yeast community in your gut, ease into a more conventional diet that emphasizes natural, unprocessed foods with low sugar/milk content.

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  • Today, American Family is a thriving Fortune 500 company with over $16.8 billion in assets under management and $5.4 billion in equity.

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  • The company was started in 1955 by Californian optometrists and has been thriving since its inception.

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  • No matter the financial situation of the church - whether just starting out or thriving greatly - it is vital to have proper insurance coverage.

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  • Although this company no longer operates, Safeco still operates as a thriving insurance company.

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  • Children who are forced to skip routine well-child medical visits as well as treatment needed for ailments may have a difficult time developing correctly, concentrating in school, and thriving as a happy child.

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  • The five music lovers became Wet Wet Wet in Clydebank, Scotland, in an attempt to create a more successful life for themselves rather than resorting to living on the dole in what was once one of Scotland's most thriving industrial areas.

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  • Sing 365 - On Sing 365, not only do you get the lyrics you want, but you'll also find a thriving community of fellow fans with whom you can debate all of the hidden meanings.

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  • Despite failing to wow his music teachers, Elvis became more and more engrossed in music, especially Memphis' thriving blues scene centered on the now legendary Beale Street.

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  • Because of Ireland's strict broadcast rules, a thriving pirate radio network grew in the country.

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  • Jax Party Rentals is another thriving business specializing in Jacksonville party rentals.

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  • With all of these nations showing versions of Big Brother, it's no wonder that CBS developed an American version that is still thriving nine seasons later.

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  • In addition to working as a stylist at the Gatsby, Alexa has a thriving side business as an in-demand make-up artist for local brides.

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  • The social worker now has a thriving sideline in media appearances and blogging.

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  • Soon after her birth it seemed like Josie Duggar might not make it, but after a long hospital stay and plenty of support from her supersized family, she is growing and thriving.

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  • However, they began to have resurgence in the 1990s and have since been found thriving in pockets of the country and the world.

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  • The period of greatest material prosperity of New Haven in the colonial period began about 1750, when a thriving commerce with other American ports and the West Indies developed.

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  • A thriving export trade is carried on in agricultural produce, condensed milk is manufactured, and slate is extensively quarried in the neighbourhood, while some coal is exported from the neighbouring fields.

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  • Fruit farming is a thriving industry, the slopes of the plateaus and the river valleys being specially adapted for this culture.

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  • At the beginning of the 18th century Belfast had become known as a place of considerable trade, and was then thought a handsome, thriving and well-peopled town, with many new houses and good shops.

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  • Pangani (pop. about 3500) is situated at the mouth of the river of the same name; it serves a district rich in tropical products, and does a thriving trade with Zanzibar and Pemba.

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  • Cereals' have been for many years declining, although Indian corn is a valuable subsidiary to the dairy interest, which is the most thriving farm industry.

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  • Many hill towns once thriving have long since become abandoned, desolate and comparatively inaccessible; though with the development of the summer resident's interests many will probably eventually regain prosperity.

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  • The valley is noted for its beauty, fertility, and healthfulness, and is the centre of thriving fruit and wine industries.

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  • Brilliant erect-growing caryophyllaceous plants, thriving best in beds of peat earth or of deep sandy loam.

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  • Free-blooming, showy scrophulariaceous plants, thriving best in moist situations.

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  • Bold-habited composite plants, well suited for shrubbery borders, and thriving in light loamy soil.

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  • Beautiful dwarf bulbous plants, thriving in well-worked sandy loam, or sandy peat.

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  • Pretty dwarf iridaceous plants, thriving in peaty soil.

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  • Splendid dwarfish bulbs, thriving in deep, sandy, wellenriched garden soil, and increased by offsets.

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  • Other thriving industries include bleaching, dyeing, calico-printing, weaving (carpets, shawls, tartans), engineering, tanning, iron and brass founding, brewing, distilling, and the making of starch, cornflour, soap, marmalade and other preserves, besides some shipbuilding in the yards on the left bank of the White Cart.

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  • Taiara, on the route between El Obeid and the Nile, was destroyed by the dervishes but has been rebuilt and is a thriving mart for the gum trade.

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  • In the new countries, especially in the United States and Australia, but also in South Africa, orders and congregations of all kinds are most thriving.

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  • This cantonment occupies the site of a Nubian village, and round it has grown a thriving town, at first named Taufikia, but now called Haifa.

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  • The Bohea variety is hardy, and capable of thriving under many different conditions of climate and situation, while the indigenous plant is tender and difficult of cultivation, requiring for its success a close, hot, moist and equable climate.

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  • The cultivation of hops is in a very thriving condition in the southern states of Germany.

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  • There are also thriving fisheries, the Looe fishermen being particularly expert with the seine on a rocky bottom.

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  • During the break-up of the Roman empire, Gaeta, like Amalfi and Naples, would seem to have established itself as a practically independent port and to have carried on a thriving trade with the Levant.

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  • Cehegin has a thriving trade in farm produce, especially wine, olive oil and hemp; and various kinds of marble are obtained from quarries near the town.

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  • Founded in 17 73, it has gradually absorbed the villages of Arthurlie, Dovecothall and Grahamston, and become a thriving town.

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  • Josiah, born in 1730, was the youngest child of another Thomas Wedgwood, who owned a small but thriving pottery in Burslem.

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  • Sopron has a thriving industry in sugar, soap, vinegar, bellfounding and machinery, and it carries on an active trade in cereals, fruit and wine.

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  • The Arab, transported to a soil which does not always suit him, so far from thriving, tends to disappear, whereas the Berber becomes more and more aggressive, and yearly increases in numbers.

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  • Yecla has a thriving trade in the grain, wine, oil, fruit and esparto grass produced in the surrounding country.

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  • The greater part of its surface is occupied by a town, formerly a thriving commercial entrepot and a strong military post.

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  • Alcala de los Gazules (8877), on the river Barbate, in the province of Cadiz, has a thriving trade in cork and agricultural produce.

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  • There is a thriving trade in wine, oil, wool, timber, cattle, mules, horses and sheep, but agriculture is far less prosperous than in the maritime provinces of Catalonia.

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  • The southern shore is fringed by a steep range of mountains, with several thriving villages along the coast.

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  • In the time of Edward the Confessor the town seems to have consisted of the mill and a fortification or earthwork which was probably thrown up by Alfred as a defence against the Danes; but it had increased in importance before the Conquest, and appears in Domesday as a thriving borough and port.

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  • Arundel was formerly a thriving seaport, and in 1813 was connected by canal with London.

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  • The latter, however, though thriving as an aviary bird, has failed at large in England, as did the bob-white (Onyx virginianus) both there and in New Zealand.

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  • Amersfoort is here the only town of any size, but along the western edge of this tract there is a row of thriving villages, namely, Amerongen, Leersum, Doorn, Driebergen and Zeist.

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  • Rhizon, the modern hamlet of Risano, close by, was a thriving "Illyrian" city as early as 22 9 B.C., and gave its name to the Bocche, then known as Rhizonicus Sinus.

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  • Wermelskirchen is the centre of many thriving industries, chief among which are the manufacture of silks, cotton and silk ribbons, plush, tobacco and steel goods.

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  • Lawrence is surrounded by a good farming region, and is itself a thriving educational and commercial centre.

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  • By the middle of June the hitherto thriving town had been abandoned by a large majority of its inhabitants.

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  • Djakovo has a thriving trade in agricultural produce.

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  • The bazaar is small, although a thriving trade is done with the mountain districts.

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  • Favoured with a suitable climate and inhabited by a thriving rural population, Bohemia is very highly developed in the matter of agriculture.

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  • Paarl is a thriving agricultural and viticultural centre, among its industries being the manufacture of wine and brandy, wagon and carriage building and harness making.

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  • Leavenworth was, in Territorial days and until after 1880, the largest and most thriving commercial city of the state, and rivalled Kansas City, Missouri, which, however, finally got the better of it in the struggle for railway facilities.

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  • It is a thriving city in a cotton-growing and cotton-manufacturing region, about Soo ft.

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  • Throughout its course from its confluence with the Arghandab to the ford of Chahar Burjak, where it bends northward, the Helmund valley is a narrow green belt of fertility sunk in the midst of a wide alluvial desert, with many thriving villages interspersed amongst the remains of ancient cities, relics of Kaiani rule.

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  • The thriving village of NEW Deer (formerly called Auchriddie) lies about 7 m.

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  • The chief town of the province is Zwolle, and other thriving industrial centres are Deventer, famous for its carpets and cake, and Almelo, Enschede, Hengelo and Oldenzaal in Twente.

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  • The town is a thriving centre of trade and commerce.

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  • The Herdwick is the hardiest of all the breeds thriving upon the poor mountain land in Cumberland and Westmorland.

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  • Their original tactics were merely to land suddenly near some thriving seaport, or rich monastery, to sack it, and to take to the water again before the local militia could turn out in force against them.

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  • It soon became a thriving commercial town with an extensive river trade, was incorporated in 1819, and received a city charter in 1847.

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  • It is well provided with railway communication, being directly connected with Berlin and with the populous and thriving towns of the Erzgebirge and Voigtland.

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  • There are several thriving industries, including, besides the various branches of the publishing trade, the manufacture of cloth and woollens and of mathematical and other scientific instruments.

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  • The Jacobins leant on the revolutionary commune and the mob of Paris; the Girondins leant on the thriving burghers of the provincial cities.

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  • Cupar is an agricultural and legal centre and a thriving and prosperous town.

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  • It is a well-built town, with some thriving manufactures, including cotton goods, cigarettes, liqueurs, &c. It is the see of a bishop and has a fine cathedral.

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  • The system of irrigation formerly carried on by these canals rendered the plain of Kazvin one of the most fertile regions in Persia; now most of the canals are choked up. The city has a population of about 50,000 and a thriving transit trade, particularly since 1899 when the carriage road between Resht and Teheran with Kazvin as a half-way stage was opened under the auspices of the Russian "Enzeli-Teheran Road Company."

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  • Indeed, throughout the first half of the 18th century it was on a continuous war footing against English corsairs, making reprisals on British ships and thriving at the same time on a large contraband trade with Jamaica and other foreign colonies.

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  • Large herds of swine fatten in the oak and beech forests; and dairy-farming is a thriving industry in the highlands between Agram and Warasdin, where, during the last years of the icth century, systematic attempts were made to replace the mountain pastures by clover and sown grass.

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  • Many thriving suburban villages, such as Reudnitz, Volkmarsdorf, Gohlis, Eutritzsch, Plagwitz and Lindenau, have been incorporated with the city, and with these accretions the population in 1905 amounted to 502,570.

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  • The most important of these are Abu Arish, Bet el Fakih and Zubed in the western Tehama, the latter a thriving town of 20,000 inhabitants and the residence of a Turkish kaimakam; and Abyan and Lahej, the chief place of the independent Abdali tribe, in the southern Tehama.

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  • Esseg has a thriving trade in grain, fruit, live-stock, plum-brandy and timber.

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  • Like many of Ouray's Victorian buildings, it had previously housed a variety of mercantile businesses—a dry goods establishment, a drug store— during the times the town was a thriving, self-sustained community.

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  • The animal's blood sustained them, yet they were not thriving.

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  • Thriving culture with a dash of sleaze and the world's greatest bookstore.

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  • Now many of the trees are well over 2m tall and the cascades of hot pink bougainvillea are thriving.

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  • The red fox has the widest geographical range of any wild carnivore, thriving in habitats from woodland and desert to city center.

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  • They believed the waters would cure all manner of ailments and thus attracted thriving commerce.

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  • They also have a thriving on-line business selling a large range of funky cookie cutters, sprinkles, and cake cases.

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  • She wasn't looking for a handout from her distant cousin Roz, just a job at her thriving In the Garden nursery.

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  • Judging by the signs, the little river Ecole also supports a thriving water cress industry.

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  • Hence we are seeking to establish a critical mass of people enough to initiate and sustain a thriving local land based economy.

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  • Will they build a thriving business empire or become eccentric entrepreneurs designing the next big thing?

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  • Today, our skilled glassmakers are continuing a time-honoured tradition at our thriving, working factory.

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  • St Dunstan's Ovingdean, its National Center in Brighton is a thriving hub of activity.

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  • It's a thriving hybrid, a conglomeration of 88 independent cities sprawling over a vast urban Maelstrom.

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  • This site will open up a fresh stretch of the seafront next to the thriving marina in the town.

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  • This month it earmarked another £ 100,000 to help medics maintain its thriving database.

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  • Out and about in Bergamo the thriving fashion metropolis of Milan is just one hour outside Bergamo.

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  • A recently added bonus of exotic trees is the now thriving colonies of breeding golden orioles in Suffolk.

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  • Still thriving are huge areas of beautiful parkland in the heart of the city.

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  • The Chapel is thriving, with a wonderful choir for our Sunday Services composed mainly of Trinity students.

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  • Today, Steve is a thriving adult who holds a steady job and who talks quite well.

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  • Whatever your encounter, the Girl Scouts of America has sustained as a thriving non-profit for generations, and will continue to provide meaningful activities and goals for new legions of girls all across the nation.

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  • Actinidia - Climbing summer-leafing shrubs of the Camellia order from Japan and China, thriving in warm soil.

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  • According to Mr Bean in Trees and Shrubs, p. 165, it is a native of Spain, and only hardy in the milder parts of Great Britain, needing at Kew wall protection, but in the gardens at Grayswood Hill, near Haslemere, thriving splendidly.

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  • Tuberous plants of the Lily order, with spiked flowers, and not of a high order of beauty, thriving in any free garden soil.

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  • Vigorous perennials of the Buttercup order, 3 feet to 6 feet high, thriving in free soil; flower spikes, white and long, with showy berries.

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  • Hardy shrubs of the Pea, order, thriving in ordinary garden soil, but requiring a sheltered situation in bleak localities.

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  • A. squarrosa is the best-known species, thriving in free soil and sunny parts of the rock garden; they are more curious than attractive.

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  • It is a good peat border plant, thriving best in a moist peaty soil and in shade.

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  • Easily propagated by seeds or cuttings, and thriving best in light sandy soil.

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  • Iberis Petraea - A pretty alpine species, 3 inches high, with a flat cluster of white flowers, relieved in the centre by a tinge of red, thriving among rock plants in welldrained spots with plenty of moisture.

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  • But, in far less favoured places, it is often seen thriving for years in the open air, though it is not worth trying in cold, high, and inland places, especially on clay soils.

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  • The variegated leaved form of the common Comfrey (S. officinale) has striking variegation, effective in a garden of hardy flowers, and thriving in any soil.

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  • North America, on the borders of rivulets and on mountains, thriving in peat borders and fringes of beds of American plants in moist soil.

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  • America, thriving also as evergreens in much of the southern parts of England and Ireland.

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  • Pretty hardy annuals of the Evening Primrose family, thriving under the same treatment as all annuals from California.

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  • Everlasting Pea (Lathyrus Latifolius) - One of the hardiest and most easily cultivated of plants, thriving almost anywhere, even in courtyards amongst Flags.

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  • A choice plant for the select bulb garden or rock garden, but dies out in heavy soil, thriving in calcareous soils.

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  • Gargano Hairbell (Campanula Garganica) - A compact plant of prostrate habit, the starry erect flowers in branching racemes, pale blue, shading off to white towards the centre in summer, thriving in a rock garden or a border.

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  • Heteromeles Arbutifolia - A Californian evergreen tree, thriving in high ground in our southern counties, also near the coast in the north of Ireland, as at Castlewellan.

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  • Himalayan Heather (Cassiope) - Tiny alpine bushes, thriving in peaty soil well drained, as they are all impatient of stagnant moisture about their roots, while absolute shade from the midday sun is also necessary.

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  • Homeria Collina - A choice bulbous plant from the Cape, thriving in such light southern soils as suit Sparaxis, Ixia, and the like.

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  • Meconopsis Heterophylla - The only kind found in America, where it grows over a wide area but is nowhere abundant, thriving best in the light, dry soils of California.

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  • Spanish Silver Fir (Abies Pinsapo) - A large Fir, with bright green prickly foliage, thriving in almost any soil and in chalky districts.

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  • The company's attention to detail and belief in the foundations upon which the thriving watch industry rests ensures that every watch it creates meets the needs of water athletes across the globe.

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  • The distribution of vintage watches has grown in popularity, making it a lucrative and thriving business.

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  • Provocateur - With a thriving mail-order catalog, Web site, and shops located throughout the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Hong Kong, and America, Agent Provocateur is a heavy hitter in the lingerie biz.

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  • Sueca has a thriving trade in grain and fruit from the Jucar valley, which is irrigated by waterways created by the Moors.

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  • Don Benito is a thriving and comparatively modern town; for it dates only from the 15th century, when it was founded by refugees from Don Llorente, who deserted their own town owing to the danger of floods from the Guadiana.

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  • If fugitives are for the next half-century to be met with in all parts of Europe, yet, especially in the Levant, there grew up thriving Jewish communities often founded by Spanish refugees.

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  • There are some thriving Jewish agricultural colonies in the same dominion.

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  • Other thriving local industries include the manufacture of oil, soap, flour, leather, alcohol and esparto grass rugs.

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  • It is a thriving manufacturing town, its chief industries being leather-making, yarn-spinning, cottonand linen-weaving, the manufactures of cigars, brushes, liquors and oil, and glueand soap-boiling.

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  • It descended the Ohio and Mississippi from Pittsburg, whence there had already been a thriving river trade to New Orleans for about thirty years.

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  • Villanueva is a clean and thriving place, with good modern public buildings - town hall, churches, convents and schools.

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  • Almendralejo is a thriving town, with broad streets and good modern houses; including the palace of the marquesses of Monsalud, which contains a museum of Roman antiquities discovered in the neighbourhood.

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  • It is a thriving industrial town, devoid of any great antiquarian or architectural interest, though founded by the Moors.

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  • Kasim and Wushm, where the water in the wadi beds rises nearly to the ground level, numerous fertile oases are found with thriving villages and towns.

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  • In the neighbourhood there are large cocoa plantations; and the city has a thriving trade in cocoa, coffee, hides, cotton, native tobacco and indigo.

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  • Interesting caryophyllaceous plants, thriving in dryish situations.

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  • Handsome scrophulariaceous plants, from Chile, thriving in moist, well-drained peaty soil, and in moderate shade.

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  • Prices were low, foreign commerce was already large, business thriving; wealth gave social status; the official British class lent a lustre to society; and Boston " town " was drawing society from the " country."

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  • Other thriving trades include the glass-works on the shore, pottery-works in the "auld toon," dye-works and a factory for the making of electrical appliances.

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  • Besides its manufactures of leather, silk, velvet and ribbons, Gandia has a thriving export trade in fruit, and imports coal, guano, timber and flour.

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  • Irun is the northern terminus of the Spanish Northern railway, and a thriving industrial town, with ironworks, tan-yards, potteries and paper mills.

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  • From the wells of Shakik he crossed the waterless Nafud in four days to Jubba, and after a halt there in the nomad camps, he moved on to Hail, already a thriving town, and the capital of the Shammar state whose limits included all northern Arabia from Kasim to the Syrian border.

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  • The harbour is too shallow to admit vessels of large size, but the proximity of the town to Odessa secures for it a thriving business in wine, salt, fish, wool and tallow.

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  • Though restricted to the citadel, the medieval town became the administrative and ecclesiastical capital of Peloponnesus, and enjoyed a thriving trade and silk industry until in 1147 it was sacked by the Normans.

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  • Around the cottages in the mountains the land is cleared for cultivation, and produces thriving crops of barley, wheat, buckwheat, millet, mustard, chillies, etc. Turnips of excellent quality are extensively grown; they are free from fibre and remarkably sweet.

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  • Carballo is the central market of a thriving agricultural district.

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  • It is the chief depot for grain raised in the Gezira, has oil and soap works, and is a thriving commercial centre, being on the main trade route between Khartum and Abyssinia.

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  • They established the trade in the thriving towns of Asia Minor, and they planted it as far west as Sicily, as Sicilian silks of the 12th century with Saracenic patterns still testify.

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  • Handsome liliaceous plants, with fleshy roots, erect stems, and showy flowers, thriving in any good garden soil.

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  • Dwarf subshrubby plants well suited for rockwork, and called Sun-Roses from their blossoms resembling small wild roses and their thriving best in sunny spots.

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  • The estates he had not before visited were each more picturesque than the other; the serfs everywhere seemed thriving and touchingly grateful for the benefits conferred on them.

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  • Try a large variety of mock meat dishes in a thriving environment that is small yet cozy at the same time.

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  • Down the river Cauto, then open to the sea for vessels of 200 tons, and through Manzanillo, Bayamo drove a thriving contraband trade that made it at the opening of the 17th century the leading town of Cuba.

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  • In the 18th century Derby was the centre of a thriving commerce with the West Indies.

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  • A Mexican extension 'of the (American) Southern Pacific which has been completed from Nogales to Mazatlan is to be extended to Guadalajara, which will give the national capital direct communication with the thriving ports of Mazatlan and Guaymas.

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  • Palma has a thriving trade in grain, wine, oil, almonds, fruit, vegetables, silk, foodstuffs and livestock.

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  • The town lies on the river Yeo, and is a thriving place, with a few old houses.

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  • They are as a rule of a very hardy character, thriving best in northern latitudes - the trees having round, slender branches, and serrate, deciduous leaves, with barren and fertile catkins on the same tree, and winged fruits, the so-called seeds.

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  • That Chesterfield was early a thriving centre is shown by the charter of John Lord Wake, lord of the manor, granting a gild merchant to the town.

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  • There is a thriving trade in wine, fruit, wheat, cattle, brandy, chalk and soap.

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  • It is the centre of a thriving agricultural district and has a considerahle trade in wool, grain, cattle and horses with Basutoland, Pondoland and the neighbouring regions of Natal.

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  • An important line connects the thriving city of Barquisimeto with the port of Tucacas.

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