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University City
University City city (1990 pop. 40,087), St. Louis co., E Mo.; inc. 1906. A residential suburb of St. Louis , the city has light manufacturing, including textiles and metal fabrication. Washington Univ. is nearby.... Read more |
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Mako (city)
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Stow
Stow , city (1990 pop. 27,702), Summit co., NE Ohio, a suburb of Akron; settled 1802, inc. as a city 1960. Chiefly residential, it has some light industry.... Read more |
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Altus
Altus , city (1990 pop. 21,910), seat of Jackson co., SW Okla.; inc. 1907. The city's agricultural products include cotton, wheat, sorghum, and cattle. There is light manufacturing. Altus Air Force Base, a large training facility, also contributes to the economy. The city was founded in 1892 as the... Read more |
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Corona (city)
Corona , city (1990 pop. 76,095), Riverside co., S Calif.; inc. 1896. The city developed as a primary citrus fruit producer and shipping center. There is also light manufacturing. The name Corona ( "circle" ) was derived from the 3 mi (5 km) circular drive around the city that was once used for... Read more |
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New Rochelle
New Rochelle , city (1990 pop. 67,625), Westchester co., SE N.Y., on Long Island Sound; settled by Huguenots 1688, inc. as a village 1858, as a city 1899. Although mainly a residential suburb of New York City, it has some light industry. The house where Thomas Paine lived has been preserved. Iona... Read more |
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San Pedro Sula
San Pedro Sula , city (1997 est. pop. 417,000), capital of Cortés dept., NW Honduras. It is the second largest city in the country. San Pedro Sula and Puerto Cortés are the principal ports of Honduras and serve the northwestern banana and sugar plantations. San Pedro Sula is the major... Read more |
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Canopus
Canopus in astronomy, 2d brightest star in the sky, located in the constellation Carina, which is part of the ancient constellation Argo Navis; Bayer designation α Carinae; 1992 position R.A. 6 h 23.8 m , Dec. -52°41′. It has an apparent magnitude of -0.72, second only to Sirius... Read more |
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Ravenna (United States)
Ravenna , city (1990 pop. 12,069), seat of Portage co., NE Ohio, in a lake and farm area; settled 1799, inc. 1852. Named after the Italian city, Ravenna has diverse light manufactures.... Read more |
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Duquesne
Duquesne , city (1990 pop. 8,525), Allegheny co., SW Pa., on the Monongahela River, opposite McKeesport, in a coal region; settled 1789, laid out 1885 by the Duquesne Steel Company, inc. as a city 1917. There is light manufacturing.... Read more |
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McInerney, Jay
...College, McInerney went to New York City as a factâchecker for The New Yorker magazine. His first novel, Bright Lights, Big City (1984), about a young man's experience of existential furor in the city, won critical praise. A ... |
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'BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY' FOR LIGHT UP LOUISVILLE
The city of Louisville issued...tradition will be bigger and brighter than ever, Mayor...Abramson said today. "Light Up Louisville...will feature more lights and a taller tree...special high-tech light show that will run...Talk ... |
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'Bright Lights, Big City' Only Flickers 20 Years On
...Two decades have passed since "Bright Lights, Big City" was released in theaters. So...Turns out the answer is neither. "Bright Lights," released this week on...emerge as the best things in "Bright ... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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'BRIGHT LIGHTS' SHINES DESPITE EARLY MISHAPS
BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY -- Directed by James...profanity). "Bright Lights, Big City...the news is that "Bright Lights, Big ... |
 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY
...NJ) 07-24-1992 BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY -- NOW, GLARE WARS...recent night when the lights went out in the stately...Street streamed a strange light, radiating on her bed...thought they were seeing lights from ... |
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Bright lights, big pity
...losing sleep over the bright security lights that shine into their...powerful sodium vapor lights used to illuminate small...s like a space-age light. It's not natural...number of bright orange lights that come on every ... |
 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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A FIGHT FOR THE NIGHT DOUGLAS, ELBERT COUNTIES JOIN GROWING MOVEMENT TO KEEP...
...ever-spreading bright lights of the city. As the area grows, they say light pollution is...that throwing light where it isn...laments the dome of light that now envelops...said, as city ... |
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Chasing the bright lights.
...them away free to cities in the US. The...filament lamps in its lights. Instead the light sources are gallium...makes them genuine light sources rather...mundane as a traffic light. But if Traffic...users? The new lights ... |
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Bright lights, big cities: the setting of the sun needn't bring an end to...
...proliferation of electric light has transformed...world's major cities have forsaken the...result, electric lights have created the...nightlife in our cities and, with it...Put simply, every city is a face with two...naturally by our single ... |
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BRIGHT LIGHTS SIX CHILDREN HONORED FOR GOOD DEEDS.(Lifestyle)
...Here are six ``bright lights'' -- children...9, of Sauk City, got a $200...the ``bright light'' award. Courtney...She is a bright light to the family...the ``bright lights'' ... |
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McInerney blinded by his `Bright Lights'
...trademarked by Jay McInerney in Bright Lights, Big City - now a major motion picture starring...thing for three years, ever since Bright Lights came out. "Most books...song gets stuck in your mind: "Bright ... |
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