Sentences with phrase «major epicenters of»

A swirl of development, spurred on by Grand Central Terminal's construction, shaped New York City's central business district as a major epicenter of American capitalism.

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An epicenter for major tech companies, Austin is home to 96 of the fastest - growing private companies in America.

He says that the chance of another powerful tremor occurring in the area close to the epicenter of a major earthquake gets «up to the order of some percent» over the following week, but notes that the size of the area in question is difficult to define accurately.

Those matter more than a little in contemporary American K — 12 education as she is (a) close to the Obama administration, (b) the intellectual and spiritual leader of one of the two major «consortia» of states that are going to develop new assessment systems to accompany the new «common core» standards, and (c) she is at the epicenter of much work on multiple fronts — with big bucks from major foundations — to transform how the country views assessment and how states engage in it.

New York State has become the epicenter of a major transformation in the $ 7 billion textbook industry that threatens the preeminence of publishing behemoths like Pearson.

Detroit, once the epicenter of American auto manufacturing, formerly a major global hub of commerce and industry, is now suffering through the worst economic collapse that any single city in this nation has ever seen.

Koh Samui is an island in the Gulf of Thailand situated below Koh Pha Ngan and closest to the major southern town of Surat Thani, an epicenter for tourists arriving for the Thailand beaches in the south.

Renters look for apartments in the huge, thriving cities in order to be at the epicenter of all the major action in the cultural sphere.

The Dec. 26 earthquake struck off the western coast of Sumatra, making Banda Aceh the closest major city to the earthquake's epicenter.