Temples, monasteries, churches and mosques can give prosperous Chinese a motive to help provide welfare.
In fixed-line, China Telecom was given 21 prosperous southern provinces, while Netcom got ten poorer northern ones plus Beijing and a broadband network, as compensation.
Garel Rhys, a motor-industry expert at Cardiff University, reckons that car sales in Britain, running at around 2.2m a year, should be 300,000 higher, given the prosperous state of the economy.
("The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up and through every class and rest upon them. That's the stuff! Give the prosperous man the dickens!") It helped William McKinley defeat Bryan for the Presidency, and the Populist movement died out.
Large cities can give urban hukou, but only on a complicated points-based system which tends to favour the prosperous, giving graduates and skilled workers a better chance.
Their expedition hastened westward expansion, giving rise to prosperous cannery towns that thrived until the mid-20th century.
Whether these measures will be enough to give Apple a prosperous future, or any future at all, remains to be seen.
His tanned skin gave off a prosperous glow and he wore a gray silk suit with labels as wide as cricket bats.
Grand municipal buildings do give it a prosperous air and in the centre you are never far away from the river Humber.
Mathew Brady, the Civil War photographer who gave up his prosperous portrait business to become a pioneer of photojournalism, spent his last days in a dingy rooming house, alone and penniless.
