The young entrepreneur took Leasco public in 1965 and the stock rose, giving Mr. Steinberg the wherewithal in 1968 to take over Reliance, a prosperous insurance company nearly 10 times Leasco's size.
Dr. Mahathir, a Malay nationalist, did relax affirmative action laws that favored ethnic Malays over the prosperous ethnic Chinese.
On the one hand they depict justice, prudence and temperance presiding over a prosperous and secure community; on the other, deceit, fraud and fury.
The president used the occasion to try to inculcate the idea that he had presided over a prosperous era and left the country in excellent shape.
Responsibility for that problem sits squarely on the shoulders of the United States and other developed countries, which belched gigatons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere over a prosperous century of fossil-fueled industrial growth.
In Munich, meanwhile, Mr Stoiber has ruled unchallenged over an increasingly prosperous state.
Then, and now, the incumbent vice president was struggling to emerge from the shadow of a two-term president presiding over a peaceful, prosperous nation.
Although the holding company remained prosperous over the following years, sales at Kmart and Sears stores continued to decline, prompting Lampert to launch a major multimedia advertising campaign in 2008.
Most political analysts had predicted that the incumbents would be safe because they had raised much more money than their rivals and had presided over relatively calm, prosperous times.
