For years, the Enron Corporation used its political muscle to build the markets in which it thrived, pushing relentlessly on Capitol Hill and in bureaucratic backwaters to deregulate the nation's natural gas and electricity businesses.
Not far away is the Van Dusen Botanical Garden: 55 acres with 7,500 unusually clearly labeled plants from around the world that thrive in Vancouver's relentlessly benign climate.
After watching them fail, bounce back, relentlessly chase hidden truths, and thrive, I'm confident that there are no others more poised to rewrite textbooks, discover the next cure, and change policy than my fellow classmates.
In this case, UNOS relentlessly defends the interests of transplant centers across the country that financially thrive by transplanting organs that are locally donated.
If Singapore has one thing to teach America, it is about taking governing seriously, relentlessly asking: What world are we living in and how do we adapt to thrive.
At its heart is the persistent myth, relentlessly propounded by Wall Street, that there are a million Facebooks out there waiting to thrive and create jobs if only the government would just get the heck out of the way.
As you tunnel on relentlessly into the future, these little harbingers either choke on the noxious gases released by the extraction of decadence, or they thrive in the clean air of what we might call progress.
While from the outside Zynga may have the fun and whimsy of the Willy Wonka chocolate factory, the organization thrives on numbers, relentlessly aggregating performance data, from the upper ranks to the cafeteria staff.
Certainly, few then would have bet much on his chances of thriving in a new century -- one presumably even more relentlessly forward-looking than the last, at least in professional circles.
