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We have some firms that are strong and some firms that have struggled," she says.
The missionaries struggled valiantly against the dictates of the desert, trying simultaneously to survive the harshness of their circumstances and spread the Mormon faith.
Do they reveal the composer's intentions, or merely demonstrate the practical limitations against which he struggled?
Founded by auto mechanic Allan Loughhead and his brother Malcolm in 1916--with, tellingly enough, designer Jack Northrop, who went on to found Northrop Aircraft--the company struggled until it produced the Vega, the plane that Amelia Earhart flew across the Atlantic.
Unlike Atlantic City, where casinos have struggled for profitability since the mid-1980s, Las Vegas has proven itself almost impervious to recession.