Word: hubs
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Segel suggests that New Orleans should be rebuilt miles from its original location, keeping the region’s economic advantages as a trade hub, specifically its port for the shipping of oil and grains, while doing away with its rampant crime and corruption...
...carriers struggle, Leonard is moving on their airspace. AirTran, which flies to 51 cities, will add flights to Detroit, Northwest's most important hub, starting in November. AirTran announced that it would start service there on the day it became clear a strike was likely at Northwest...
...woeful state that India finds itself in as it tries to compete with China. Politicians in India are constantly asserting their resolve to put Bombay on a par with Shanghai, without even giving a thought to reality. The fact that a day's rainfall can paralyze the economic hub of India speaks volumes about the complete lack of basic infrastructure and disaster-management techniques in this country. The government machinery was totally overwhelmed by the floods and started providing relief only after the hapless residents resorted to massive street protests. Now we find the bureaucrats playing a blame game. Have...
...That evening?s gig was played to an even smaller house at the no-less-fine Odyssey Bookstore in South Hadley, Mass. There had indeed been a couple of Yanks fans among the Vermonters, but as I was now gravitating closer to the Hub I was entering the realm inhabited exclusively by devotees of the scarlet hose. I read about the seventh game of last year?s ALCS, then opened it up for discussion, which was almost exclusively about the afternoon?s announcement: Schilling was headed for the bullpen, probably as the closer...
...Hong Kong must adjust to the fact that it is not the only capitalist city or financial center in China, is not the biggest port, is no longer a manufacturing hub or a unique political anomaly in a postimperial age. Can Hong Kong transform itself again, as it did in the 1950s when it became more than a China gateway by turning itself into a manufacturing powerhouse? Or is it destined to become like Rio de Janeiro? Fifty years ago, the Brazilian city was the priciest place on the planet. But it lost its bearings when the bureaucracy moved...