Not long after the feds started regulating radio, Mexico's megawatt border blasters—high-powered stations planted just south of Texas and California—started beckoning. The FCC couldn't control them […] That same year, the Mexican government revised its radio licensing law, drastically reducing the X stations' autonomy.

thrive + -t → thrift

This is at variance with empirical observation: the distributions of absolute stock price changes are rather symmetrical: if anything, large negative draw-downs are more frequent than large positive draw-ups.

'Pick me boys' are a completely different story. The aim is similar – trying to make themselves stand out from other men – but their approach varies entirely. 'Pick me boys' self-deprecate and fish for compliments as a form of flirting.