1.   But thriving United States companies have been shipping a prodigious amount of goods around the country, which has led to uncharacteristically high demand for diesel.

2.   Even union workers at thriving companies live with fear of losing their jobs.

3.   He wanted to echo the success of his sister and brother-in-law, who had built a comfortable home in New Jersey and a thriving trading company in Manhattan.

4.   Several have already founded thriving companies overseas.

5.   Thriving companies are rewarded with higher stock prices when they announce layoffs, while idled workers often are forced to take new jobs that pay substantially less.

6.   Yet a thriving company may go on to deliver outsized results for years to come.