People in the north-east have struggled to prosper in inhospitable conditions, the industrial era being only a part of that story.
They have the good sense to allow their characters to express themselves in all of their confused truculence, so they emerge neither as heroes nor villains but as wounded humans struggling to prosper and to understand.
By contrast PC makers, he said, were operating on razor-thin margins and struggled to prosper, let alone think about new products.
In a hit-driven industry, said Mr Freeman, many of them had struggled to prosper because it was hard for them to get noticed and sell enough copies to pay the rent.
But even that statement says a lot about a city struggling not to prosper but to avoid desolation.
Yet the rich continue to prosper, while the poor struggle to make ends meet.
That essence explores a situation in which the struggle to survive -- and the urge to prosper -- blurs traditional lines of morality, behavior and relationships.
Although the advertising business overall has struggled since Sept. 11, Housecalls has continued to prosper.
Why does OpenTable deserve to prosper while some of its restaurant clients struggle merely to survive?
Tech continues to prosper, while the people working — or not working — in other sectors struggle.
