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...town. The industry here is prisoners, and the company is the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Twenty years ago, the people of surrounding Fremont County ponied up $160,000 to buy some open land outside Florence, hoping to entice the bureau to build a prison complex as a way to boost the town's economy. Corrections had long been a mainstay in Fremont County; the high desert valley was already home to more than half a dozen prisons. But in the end, Florence got a little more than it bargained...
...think it will help boost the country's image as a relaxing and nice place to stay." WANASIRI MORAKUL, a director of the Thailand government's Film Office, on Rambo IV: In the Serpent's Eye, which starts production next year in the country's northern provinces...
...says Sarah Lockridge-Steckel ’09, the alumni representative and public relations chair of the organization. “We want to show that we can go above and beyond.”Zukerman Professor of Sociology Mary C. Waters understands the drive for the BSA image boost. “I think that any organization of African Americans is going to be aware of negative stereotypes of black Americans as not being middle class or highly educated or high-income, although that’s not true at all,” she says...
...thankful for the experience. End of sentence. I remain skeptical about whether the knowledge of Scotland’s Fresh Talent initiative will suddenly inspire Harvard students to flock to the country, or how a quick peek into my positive weekend will boost travel plans...
...criticism as a hands-off manager of the agency who gave too much power to senior aides. Yet the CIA quietly opened many more overseas bases and stations during his tenure. It also streamlined personnel procedures to handle the influx of resumes received while the Agency was attempting to boost its number of spies and analysts with language skills...