Coming down towards the coast you pass through prosperous-looking villages with pot-bellied pigs running about and luscious vegetable plots.
For the first few miles the road from the highway is paved, passing through a prosperous district with solid houses and well-tended fields.
LOS ANGELES — The intersection of Interstate 405 and Sunset Boulevard, cutting through a prosperous stretch of rolling Los Angeles hills and estates, is notorious for its knots of traffic and frustrating delays.
The drive home from Dickey's kids' school passed through the prosperous neighborhood of Belle Meade, featuring old plantations and horse farms, and Dickey, who grew up a few miles to the east, still viewed it with an outsider's amazement.
While most of us drift languidly through the prosperous spring of the new century's first year, one relatively small segment of the American elite is approaching a state of crisis.
("The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up and through every class and rest upon them. That's the stuff! Give the prosperous man the dickens!") It helped William McKinley defeat Bryan for the Presidency, and the Populist movement died out.
Through the effervescent, prosperous 1990's, Radiohead was contrary.
"Nobody becomes prosperous through devaluations, and currency values are best set in open and competitive markets with interventions kept to a minimum," he said.
Hermits such as Mi-la ras-pa (1040 1123) shunned material things; but the systematized sects became prosperous through the support of local lords, often kinsmen of the founding lama, and, except for the Bka'-gdams-pa, each developed its own system of keeping the hierarchical succession within a noble family.
