The hard-working nature of the early immigrants had a direct influence on the town's present prosperity.

I'm sure our present prosperity can't continue forever, and when there's a leveling off, sugar and pineapple will be hard hit.

Perkins was a witness to natural destruction; he saw that mistakes of the past were destroying the present prosperity.

As our state's economy turns to technology and tourism, they are silent testimony to the broken dreams that laid the foundations of our present prosperity.

Theale owes much of its past and present prosperity to its good road communications links.

The present prosperity, he argues, "detracts from our ability to articulate a sense of national purpose."

It helped account for our present prosperity.

Half forgotten is that war in the early 1950's that established a viable country and laid the foundations of its present prosperity.

I'm not against giving the American people some of this money back from our present prosperity right now.

Benefits of the balmy days may extend from poor families to big-time investors, but are they just borrowing present prosperity from the future?