Word: hubs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...national inheritance will certainly go on for years. Yeltsin, master of the largest and richest state, has a clear edge in the bargaining, if territorial possession counts. The other Commonwealth members are so hostile to central government that they refused to designate a capital and created only an administrative hub in Minsk. By pointing out that Russia is just another state and Moscow just another city, Yeltsin can continue gathering up most of the pieces of the fallen giants, the Soviet Union and its Communist Party...
...return of the bad old days, point out that the team is good this year and alumni want to see it. Yale tickets are not made available to the non-alumni Boston public, but the local newspapers have built up the hometown boys as the heroes of the Hub...
...grocery store on every block. But how many grocery stores can one neighborhood support? That's what airline regulation did. The government required us to put in all kinds of service that consumers didn't need. And we've been trying to sort it out ever since. The hub-and-spoke system helps to hold down prices...
Capacity draws business, but only if you add it in the right places, where people want to go. Many cities seem to think that if you build an airport big enough to be a hub, it will become a hub. It's like they are building the Field of Dreams...
According to published reports, the Cambridge recycling initiative is faring much better than its counterpart in Boston, which is off to a slow start because few Hub residents are aware it exists...