Word: forte
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...neighborhoods where the insurgents gather. And that's something the U.S. and its coalition allies lack. "The U.S. Army does not have a fraction of the linguists required to operate in the Central Command's area of responsibility," says a report from the Center for Army Lessons Learned at Fort Leavenworth, Kans...
...glass doors at their pool and hot tub overlooking a lake. A year ago, Delia's employer, magazine distributor Source Interlink, decided to consolidate its several big-city offices and relocate to Bonita Springs, Fla. (pop. 32,800), a fast-sprouting town on the booming stretch of coastline between Fort Myers and Naples. The company offered jobs to both Everetts--Delia, 42, as assistant to the CEO, and Jim, 43, as office-services manager. It took the family one visit to decide. Delia, who had lived in apartments in the New York City area all her life, still looks...
...ranging from Fargo, N.D., to Fayetteville, Ark., to Reno, Nev., are leading the U.S. in job gains. The Milken Institute, a private think tank, found in its annual ranking of cities with the most job growth that 11 of the top 20 had populations well under 1 million. The Fort Myers region (pop. 420,000) added 17,500 new jobs between July 2000 and July 2003; the Fayetteville area (pop. 320,000) added 16,300. "That might seem surprising to some," says Ross DeVol, author of the study, but many smaller regions share characteristics that act as job magnets: lower...
...these towns come up with the jobs? Companies don't move to places like Fargo on a whim; it generally takes money in the form of incentives. Arkansas has spent $700 million on roads and airports around Fayetteville over the past decade. Cities like Fort Myers and Santa Fe, N.M., offer tax-abatement packages to businesses big and small in exchange for creating jobs. So do lots of places, including big cities. That's why livability is often the clincher...
...steel towns had in the past, Wal-Mart has a multiplier effect, creating work for outside service providers. The Tobees want a wedge of that pie. Cary, 39, and Cheryl, 36, moved their video-production business in July to Fayetteville from Fort Smith, Ark., and have already bid on business with Wal-Mart. "I am hoping for the overflow," says Cary. "You never know when they will need help with a project...