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Yum Brands, which has been prospering abroad, announced on Monday that it planned to sell a pair of domestic-focused businesses, Long John Silver’s and A&W All-American Food.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2011

Cargill has been prospering from thin margins on great volume ever since it was started a century ago by Will Cargill, son of a ship's master from Scotland's Orkney Islands.

From Time Magazine Archive

In spite of the cruel oppression in Ireland, Great Britain has been prospering in the last twelve years.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)