Word: hub
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first city to open for business after Deng launched his economic reforms in 1979, and its vibrant populace threw itself headlong into the pursuit of cold cash. Taking advice and investment from Hong Kong, Guangzhou hustled to become China's third biggest consumer market, second most important transport hub, third best attractor of foreign investment. Today Guangzhou's tycoons worry about competition from Hong Kong, and Beijing worries about the example Guangzhou sets for China...
...alien society is anything like ours in its leanings toward tragicomedy, the most believable explanation may come from Kristin Corn, the daughter of Hub and Sheila Corn, ranchers whose property 30 or so miles outside of Roswell is home to one of the alleged crash sites (Sheila offers pleasantly homespun tours at $15 a head). Kristin's theory: the crash was caused by alien teenagers who slipped away from a mother ship and went for a joyride, little knowing that alleged film of one of their autopsies would one day appear on the same network as World's Scariest Police...
...subsidies and the contributions Haney made to the Vice President and his party. But in this case, Gore did not need to pick up the phone to have direct influence on the fortunes of Haney's company; Haney had all the right connections. His lobbyist, Peter Knight, is the hub of Gore's political circle. He ran Gore's House and Senate office for years, helped finance his campaigns and chaired the Clinton-Gore re-election effort in 1996. In Knight, Haney also had a solid link to Tom Grumbly, who worked for Gore in the 1980s and became...
Hoeksema saw the company's net income triple from 1994 to 1995, the year before Kimberly-Clark sold the airline. Net income grew by more than 12% in 1996, to around $20 million. Midwest now flies to 23 cities in the U.S. and Canada from hubs in Milwaukee and Omaha, Neb. Compound annual growth has averaged about 20% over the past five years--significantly better than that of most other airlines. Now Hoeksema plans a third hub--location to be announced--assuming the good times continue to roll...
...like to believe Eliot was thinking of Harvard when he wrote these lines. For that is Harvard's function: to give us the license to explore, for a heady four years, the boundaries of knowledge in one hub of the universe. And then to let us return where we came from, ready to share what we have learned...