Sentences with phrase «growing town of»

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Attempting to raise funding for their effort to develop a novel therapy for persistent viral infections, the co-founders, who've been best friends since they grew up together in Philadelphia, were on the verge of giving up and heading back to the east coast when Peter Thiel personally persuaded them to stay in town.

While growing up in the seacoast New Hampshire area in the»60s and»70s, the small coastal town of Portsmouth hadn't yet become chic and trendy.

While growing up, Jake and his younger sister, Caroline Danehy, spent many summers in the small town of Fair Harbor on Fire Island.

As it grew, the settler doled out plots of land to his workers to build cottages, thereby marking the beginning of the town.

The slowly growing crop of rebels in town who don't are McClellan's ideal customers.

Offering perhaps the best indicator of a growing town, the city's first Tim Hortons is due to open this year.

Ross LeBlanc — who grew up watching her mother stay up late to bake cake for patrons of her small - town Ontario fabric store — knows when a customer feels taken care of, that customer comes back, and no expansion of the brand would be successful without setting exceptional service standards.

The event, now in its 27th year, is one of the city's largest — more than 170,000 people pile into the growing desert locale to make deals, listen to copious amounts of music and explore this always - active college town.

Companies hoping to strike it rich flocked to the area and the population of the town of Kirwin grew to 200 people by 1904.

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Add to that excellent health care backed by first - rate technology — medical tourism is a fast - growing industry here — and temperate weather throughout the year, and it's easy to see why tens of thousands of expats call this 18th - century colonial town home.

In the true south of the country on the shores of the Mediterranean, this town of about 2,000 residents is a bustling market town popular with locals who come from all around the region to taste the locally grown produce and artisan goods — a truly French experience.

Noah Ready - Campbell, who grew up in a small mountain town in Vermont, and Calvin Young, a Chinese immigrant whose family settled in the Virginia when he was 2 years old, both landed scholarship admission to boarding school (Philips Exeter and North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, respectively).

The grandson of farmers, and son of an agricultural extension agent, Harrison grew up in small Michigan towns — Grayling, Reed City, Haslett — where he developed a love of books and a primal bond with the outdoors, «bone - and marrow - deep.»

Another step in the development of the fast - growing sharing economy is that it is getting its own insurance policies, designed to stabilize income generated by driving strangers around town or letting them stay in your home.

«Dow Chemical is the employer in town, and I knew as we grew I'd be competing against it for a limited supply of qualified workers.

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP)-- While authorities investigate what set off a deadly shooting at an electronic music festival event, residents said it came amid a growing and increasingly open drug scene in this resort town that has long been spared the violence of Mexico's cartel wars.

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Madden's founding story is quintessential Americana: He grew up on the south shore of Long Island in a neighborhood called Five Towns.

Economic research is making increasingly clear that increased trade with China over the last 25 years had significant, negative effects on workers in certain parts of the country, like the industrial town in Ohio where Vance grew up, though perhaps not as negative as widely believed in those regions.

Zuckerberg, who grew up in the sleepy town about 25 miles north of New York City, was visiting from California.

For those of you who have moved away from the town where you grew up, the few times that you see your hometown in the national news creates an enormous sense of pride.

After all, Twitter cofounder Evan Williams grew up in a town with a population of just 369 — which shows that disruptive innovators can come from very small places.

When not investing and advising, Susan can be found climbing one of San Francisco's many hills, frequenting the ever - growing array of 3rd - wave coffee shops around town, and singing with the Loose Interpretations.

We were able to grow the Help Scout blog from a ghost town to a thriving community of 30000 newsletter subscribers in a paltry 12 months.

West Fargo is one of the fastest - growing communities in North Dakota and is known for its small - town living with the resources and amenities of a large metropolitan city.

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But, being a female entrepreneur and a woman of color in the food tech space has been empowering, and I really believe that the Town Kitchen can grow and do amazing things.»

«Portland, Oregon attracts investors and a growing number of companies with its big city amenities and small town vibe.»

The plan designated it as a significant growth area, but the municipality is at least six years behind with construction of a new sewage plant needed for the town's population to grow from 30,000 to 86,000 by 2031.

Like, a company doubling the number of stores in the same town is going to grow earnings faster than sales while a company increasing its nationwide store count by 10 % through filling in the most rural places it hasn't yet reached is not going to drive any sort of earnings growth beyond store count growth.

But beyond all debates about what caused the 2008 financial crisis, even during the prosperous years of the aughties a sense of unease was growing, a feeling that if this society was what triumph of global capitalism entailed, in which the small towns shriveled and most manufacturing went overseas, then maybe it wasn't a good thing.

Mia Love is our mayor but I see signs of her being to much to the right of developers in this growing town.

I first heard of homeschooling as a child growing up in a college town in New England, when the only people who homeschooled their children were hippies living on communes in the country or academics and political activists protesting against the regimented and regimenting education «the system» provided for its own repressive purposes.

All of the Catholic college professors that I have known (and I've known a lot having grown up in a university town with two Catholic colleges, having attended three Catholic universities and now living again in a town where a Catholic university is the largest employer) have been very generous in both their monetary donations and donating time to various charities and charitable works.

The church is located in a conservative part of the country (in a town that serves as the national headquarters for the Church of God and home to one of the largest Pentecostal universities in the country), so it attracts a lot of people who grew up Southern Baptist or Pentecostal or non-denominational.

When I was growing up in a small town in western Pennsylvania, I saw the idea of the servant leader lived out.

The passage from nomadic to agricultural life, and so out into the commercialized town life of Palestine, inevitably encouraged a growing individualism.

I grew up in a small town outside of which was a Benedictine Monastery.

So why is it that a grown person who believes in Santa would be laughed out of town, whereas someone who believes in something far, far, far, far less probable, with no evidence whatsoever, they are applauded for their «faith»?

Determined to enjoy (but not too much) the fruits of their labors, the growing middle class of Dutch burghers, merchants, traders and manufacturers filled their tidy town - houses with art that celebrated their personal dignity and accomplishments, the humid sweep of their lowland countryside, and the miraculous bounty of Indonesian spices, Chinese porcelains, tropical fruits, Persian carpets, Venetian glass and other luxuries made available through the expertise of their merchant fleets.

Although the popular Czech Church was quite small, the number of converts and sympathizers grew» especially among youth and the intelligentsia, and in the larger towns.

«I grew up Nancy D'Alesandro, in Baltimore, Maryland; in Little Italy; in a very devout Catholic family; fiercely patriotic; proud of our town and heritage and staunchly Democratic,» she told Washington Post reporters.

Like Malcolm X, DuBois did extremely well in the public schools of the town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where he grew up.

Santa Fe When I was a child growing up in a small town in southern Illinois, my parents once took me to the central part of the state to see the capitol building and Abraham Lincoln's home in Springfield.

«It's Wrong» Lynch grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, a town of 330 people with only one place to shop: «The What - Not...

In spite of the growing hostility that has forced Jesus to carry on his work outside the towns by the lakeside, a large crowd continues to listen to him.

I grew up in a Christian home in Pleasanton, a small town east of San Francisco.

And then as a lad growing up in the small Ohio town where my father was a pastor, I learned further to look at the world in a kind of fascinated and determined way.

We were in the small southern Indiana town where I grew up, and a gospel concert was advertised for the auditorium of the little Christian college there.