These concentric canals, together with the smaller radial canals, form a characteristic spiderweb pattern, which was extended east along the harbour and west into the district known as the Jordaan during the prosperous Golden Age (the 17th and early 18th centuries).
In our wondrously and preposterously divided world of 194 nation-states, it is fairly easy to subdivide them into certain categories: the really Great Powers, the medium powers, the prosperous aging states (think of Italy), the war-torn states and the desperately impoverished states in Africa, plus the lucky states (think of New Zealand).
The friendships were forged in the intimate maelstrom of the desks at firms like Cantor Fitzgerald, where traders sat, lunch-counter style, every day for 10 hours straight, amid the flashing terminals and ringing phones, the shouting, the betting pools, the practical jokes -- men hurtling together through the years toward a prosperous middle age.
Paul Otellini, who presided over Intel during some of its most prosperous years, passed away today at the age of 66.
But environmentalism holds little attraction in a county where soot-covered stoops and dirty rivers were accepted as an unfortunate trade-off of a prosperous industrial age.
It is necessary to go farther north Sardinia and Corsica to find an original and prosperous Bronze Age, the creations of which continue to pose certain problems of interpretation.
To enjoy a prosperous old age, the artists signing up must hope they stay that way and that one at least of their number gets more recognition than Van Gogh ever did before he died.
Our income is modest, but wonderfully adequate for us two, since we have paid off our mortgage; evidently we are representative of our lucky generation, who are more prosperous in age than ever before.
Today 83% of parents with children aged 20 to 45 own their own home but only 44% of their offspring do, a survey by the National Centre for Social Research found.Britons who see homeownership as the foundation not only of a prosperous old age but even of civic virtue shudder at the prospect.
Now, an elderly business cycle in America is entering its dotage; whether that country, among others, responds to adversity by remaining open and liberal will determine whether globalisation is ever (or soon) able to realise its promise of helping the impoverished youth of the third world reach a more prosperous old age.
