Word: hub
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some children in a jungle clearing. A Khmer Rouge soldier had his rifle trained on them. Off to the side of the drawing was a large circle with four lines extending from the outer rim to the center, where there was a hole like a wheel's hub. Leading away from one part of the outer rim were three lines, and from another part a single line with a small ring...
Come dawn, and the densely populated neighborhoods explode with vitality and never-ending energy: today Hong Kong is Asia's international business hub and the world's eighth largest trading economy, as well as China's premier asset. In 1996, the territory's entities channeled about $100 billion into mainland China, about 60 percent of all the capital injected into the country. The economic links with the mainland represent the most significant factor to shape the short-term future of the territory, which has acquired the new status of China's Special Administrative Region in the historic event...
...belonged on local cable access TV. But Bill Weld doesn't care what he looks like. He's not running for Senate and he's certainly not running for president. Instead, the governor has the taste of margaritas in his mouth and is thinking only of escaping The Hub with his camera-shy wife...
...company based in Colorado Springs, Colo., is a good example. Last year Western Pacific chalked up a $23.7 million net loss and in the process jettisoned both its management and its business plan. The company tried to avoid a head-on battle with United Airlines in its Denver hub. But Western Pacific was also missing out on the flush business market that connects there. "A lot of low-fare carriers make the mistake of trying to hide in the weeds," says Western Pacific CEO Robert Peiser, former CEO of FoxMeyer Drug Co., who took over last December...
...state has its believers in black helicopters, but our real problem is that the rest of the country sees us as a solution to its problems. Everybody wants to dump their waste here, but Nevada is not America's wasteland." When Gibbons half jokes that his district represents "the hub of the world, the middle of everywhere," a nearby constituent nods with no apparent sense of irony...