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The NYT says the death of Nigeria's Abacha, whose five-year reign was marked by his brutal suppression of political opponents and who had no designated successor, initially prompted hopes among Nigerian political exiles and some world leaders that Nigeria, which had a flourishing democracy briefly in the early 1980s, might restore civilian government.
The art scene is flourishing in Puerto Rico.
According to the Wall Street Journal , high culture is flourishing in America.
Reagan's tax cuts, Glassman contends, fueled the current gush of tax revenues as well as a flourishing entrepreneurial culture.
A WSJ front-page feature reports on a virtually unnoticed obstacle to the flourishing of free trade under NAFTA: There aren't enough bridges, rails and docks to handle all the additional movement of goods the treaty sanctions.