Looking back, decades later, I realize that all this upheaval — prosperity one day, penny-pinching the next — has left me with a somewhat complicated relationship with possessions.
The growth of Asian malls and supermarkets mirrors the growing prosperity of Asian-Americans who have left urban enclaves for mainstream suburbs.
Even as health care companies in the Northeast's medical megalopolis have added 50,000 jobs, since 2000 all other industries combined have lost 220,000, ending a decadelong boom that had left many taking prosperity for granted.
In retrospect, for all our hot impatience, President Eisenhower had left America in peace and prosperity.
Like the Arab uprisings in Libya and across the region that have left unstable places groping their way toward democracy and prosperity.
Having left behind their rural villages for the dim promise of urban prosperity, they had little to fall back on when trouble arose.
Regulators and elected officials might be open to scaling back on exploration, since their decades of oil-funded prosperity have expired, leaving them with less patience for the industry's promises.
"Indeed, poorly nourished people are a sign of development gone awry: prosperity has either bypassed them and left them hungry, or saturated them to the point of self-indulgence".
