The firm flourished for 10 years - as did an artistic liaison which was to culminate in an album of R&B standards, Brown, Black and Blue (1980).
The firm flourished in the construction boom following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and, in 1890, the partners were retained to advise on the plans for Chicago's first World's Fair.
Jiang Weiping, a Chinese journalist who worked in Dalian during Mr. Bo's tenure there, said Ms. Gu's firm flourished by serving as a gatekeeper to her husband and his powerful government associates.
There are various accounts of what happened over the next few years, but it is clear both that the firm flourished during Corzine's tenure and that the executive committee became increasingly disenchanted with his leadership.
His discount brokerage firm flourished, and Wall Street has never been the same.
Hi-tech firms flourishing, corporate headquarters from multinationals ticking over, hundreds of small enterprises struggling away.
Private-equity firms flourished in the West, challenging the idea that public companies are the best managed.
The biggest lesson from the failed Arab embargo of the 1970s is that oil is a fungible, global commodity: a shock in one place sends prices soaring for everyone, everywhere.Even CNOOC's Mr Fu, who wants to see Chinese firms flourish at home, believes that their current infatuation with going overseas for "equity oil" is misguided.
Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, has proposed a provision that would grant the government warrants to purchase stock in companies that participate in the bailout plan, so that taxpayers might be able to profit should the firms flourish after selling their bad debts to the government.
His firm was flourishing financially, and the Knudtzon family became a rallying point for Trondheim's artists and authors.
