Word: hubs
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...1870s and 1880s -- to diversify. Idaho also continued to help small companies grow larger while encouraging the new high-tech industries around Boise. Wyoming revived its moribund coal fields with the world's most highly automated mining processes. Colorado financed an ambitious drive to make Denver an international hub with a new $3 billion airport. Utah restructured its copper and steel mills and absorbed their laid-off workers into gleaming new aerospace, computer-software and financial-services facilities. "The Rockies became leaner and meaner ahead of the rest of the country," says Russell Behrmann, Utah's economic- development director...
David G. Sword and Charles K. Lee come from very different places. Sword, 23, was born in Moose Jaw (pop. 34,424), an agriculture hub in the prairie lands of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Friends say the family has bounced around a lot, and the address given for Sword in the class of 1993 freshman register is for a military post office box in upstate New York...
...background. It leads over to Arkansas, birthplace of the president (as a sign on the bridge lets you know). At night, the bridge is fully lighted and can be seen from the air. Quite a sight for weary airplane travelers circling down--usually on Northwest. Memphis is a hub, after all. The airline of choice for the Mafia in the film is the airline of choice for just about every Memphian...
...Tigers (6-5 overall, 3-0 Ivy) roar into the Hub today with an undefeated record in the Ancient Eight, a five game winning streak, and the top spot in the Ivy League standings. They were the pre-season favorites to take the Ancient Eight title, and as of yet they haven't disappointed any one. Harvard comes into the match sporting a 2-8 record overall, 1-1 in the Ivies. Despite recent turmoil involving player discontent over Coach Gordan Graham, the Crimson has righted itself and is prepared to tame the tennis Tigers...
...storm of the century" and the 78 other storms to hit the Hub in recent weeks, the Crimson (0-1) has had to iron out its early-season kinks indoors. Practice time outdoors has been limited...