Word: hubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gainers have been hub cities such as Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago and New York and recreation meccas like Hawaii and Florida. But there have been losers too. Some 60 cities have been stripped of all scheduled airline service. In Chattanooga, which lost much of its service when United and Eastern pulled out this year, James Hunt, a Chamber of Commerce executive, says unhappily of deregulation: "Count us as one of the minuses...
...commercial hub is Sherman Avenue, where Harry's Hong Kong Tailor Shop is tucked alongside the base exchange. Gitmo has a zoo, but it has only a handful of animals: a pony and a burro and a few goats, rabbits, ducks and chickens. Because water is expensive, $7 per 1,000 gal, residents sprinkle their lawns with dirty wash water...
...will be instructive for the Pope to experience at first hand these realities of American life, and instructive for Bostonians as well as they seek an equitable resolution of the matter. However it is managed, it will be an extraordinary scene: the Supreme Pontiff in the Hub of the Universe: how Mayor Curley would have loved...
...been perfected by the time Oliver Wendell Holmes spoke of the Massachusetts statehouse as-get this-the "hub of the solar system." The same spirit lingers yet in Boston and was glimpsed this year when the city exploded with indignation at a proposal to move its Gilbert Stuart portraits of George and Martha Washington to Washington, D.C. Horrors, said Boston Mayor Kevin White: "Everybody knows Washington has no culture...
...hub is Denver, a city caught up in a runaway boom caused by the sudden influx of energy corporations. Denver's growth, writes TIME Correspondent William Blaylock, is changing the face of the mile-high city, the region and the lives of its residents at a dizzying rate that pleases many but worries some. Blaylock's report...