Socialism for the rich is thriving while, for everybody else, it is capitalism red in tooth and claw.
Western-style theatres, orchestras, and opera companies are thriving, while the popular arts also flourish.
But merchants in this gritty Little Italy say it is thriving while the better-known one downtown has been suffering.
More than 50 contemporary galleries, including the acclaimed Singapore Art Museum, are thriving, while the success of the Singapore Biennale and Art Stage Singapore have bolstered this vision.
The strategy appears to have worked; eco-lodges are thriving, while the tourist numbers continue to swell: one million visitors will fly in this year for the first time ever.
The town's mayor, Sven-Ake Draxten, 57, a man who likes his Swedish meatballs with a side of lingonberries, noted that local companies that charge the workers for lodging, food and transportation are thriving, while "the pickers are the losers all the time".
The recent spate of elections across the U.S and Europe has exposed the fault lines of our advanced economies cities are thriving while the rural economy is faltering.
Restaurants that serve the well-off are thriving, while those that serve the rest of us are struggling, in a microcosm of the broader economy.
"And the old Sun Belt--Miami, Dallas, Denver and Los Angeles-- has Angeles-- has Angeles-- has Indeed, papers in the Northeast are thriving while such papers as the Miami Herald, Dallas Morning News, Dallas Times Herald, Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News are suffering.
Bill O'Reilly is thriving, while others who do the same things have lost their jobs, gone to prison, or even had their future professional and personal lives completely destroyed.
