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).
Even in a relatively prosperous age — for all of today's woes, we have left behind the dark, satanic mills and workhouses of the 19th century — this decline of the middle class is more than an economic issue.
A network of connections between these short stories illuminates from more than one point of view a sort of clique of aging, prosperous Bostonians and the rough, unprosperous Maine community where they traditionally spend summer.
A network of connections between these short stories illuminates from more than one point of view a sort of clique of aging, prosperous Bostonians and the rough, unprosperous Maine community where they traditionally spend their summers.
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.
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.
If a company sponsoring such a plan went bust and there turned out to be a big shortfall in the pension fund, employees could lose a large chunk of their expected retirement benefits.The predicament of workers whose hopes for a prosperous old age had been dashed was a wake-up call for the government.
