21.   Some analysts said that, in its core telecommunications business, the company may well thrive.

22.   Telecommunications companies are thriving.

23.   The company is thriving, the shareholders are rich and its name is synonymous with high technology and success.

24.   The company thrived and expanded on Taiwan for the next seven years.

25.   The company thrived on an image of benign femininity.

26.   The company thrived by lumping such loans into packages and selling them to investors, but the market turned sour in August and September.

27.   The staggering job losses, even at companies that are thriving, are rationalized as necessary sacrifices to the great gods of international competition.

28.   The studio is betting that films with big stars can dispel doubts the company will thrive.

29.   These companies thrive because loans from generally healthy Taiwanese banks remains abundant.

30.   Trained in a repertory of world classics, the company thrives in realms beyond kitchen-sink realism.