Word: hubs
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...Alistair Darling by bragging that the appointment of a French official to oversee E.U. regulation of financial markets was both a "victory of the European model, which has nothing to do with the excesses of financial capitalism," and a chance to "clamp down on the City [London's financial hub]" - a threat Darling described as "self-defeating" and "a recipe for confusion." (See pictures of Sarkozy...
...secession have paralyzed much of the state. Trains have been blocked, businesses shut down. According to news reports on Saturday, two activists in favor of a "united Andhra" took their lives in protest of the state's splitting. The turmoil has also plunged Hyderabad, a booming, cosmopolitan I.T. hub, into panic as politicians and business leaders fret over the costs of the current instability. "This will be a total flop as investors will flee," says Amruthraj Padmanabhundi, a 27-year-old I.T. professional in Hyderabad. "I am very worried [about] my prospects slipping...
...Allston Science Complex is the first component of Harvard’s ambitious 50-year plan to construct an extension of its campus across the Charles River and was intended to serve as a hub for stem cell research and interdisciplinary science. Faust’s letter stated that the delay in construction would “in no way slow Harvard’s significant momentum in the life sciences...
...immigration agency. But according to investigators, he actually spent his time in Mumbai "taking pictures and making videotapes of various targets," including those that would eventually be attacked - the Taj and Oberoi hotels, Leopold Café, Nariman House and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the city's main railway hub. (See a story about Pakistani jihadis going global...
...Allston Science Complex is the first component of Harvard's ambitious 50-year plan to construct a campus across the river and was intended to serve as a hub for stem cell research and interdisciplinary science. Faust's letter wrote that the delay in construction would "in no way slow Harvard's significant momentum in the life sciences...