Since annexing ( rather than incorporating ) the banlieues of major French cities during the Second Empire period ( Lyon in 1852, Lille in 1858, Paris in 1860, Bordeaux in 1865 ), the French communities have in effect extended their boundaries very little beyond their delimitations, and have not followed the development of the urban unit existing prior to 1870 as well as almost all large and mid-sized cities in France having a banlieue develop a Couronne pėriurbaine ( in English: near-urban ring ).

While the high price of ParcPlace Smalltalk limited its market penetration to mid-sized and large commercial organizations, the Digitalk products initially tried to reach a wider audience with a lower price.

The 700 / 7000 commercial architecture inspired the very successful IBM 1400 series of mid-sized business computers.

In the early 20th century, they were often crossed with Dales ponies, creating mid-sized draught horses useful for pulling commercial wagons and military artillery.

Most of GE Capital's commercial loans are to small and mid-sized companies, spread across multiple industries and geographies and secured by tangible assets.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, many mid-sized U. S. cities installed pedestrian malls in their downtown areas, as a response to increasing traffic jams and the commercial success of self-contained edge-of-town shopping malls.

The design is intended to better suit the needs of the US and Canadian pickup truck market, where pickup trucks, particularly compact and mid-sized models, are often used as personal vehicles, and less exclusively for commercial, agricultural, and off road use.

As did many other school bus body dealers in the U. S., in the early 1980s, Virginia Overland diversified its products lines from handling only Wayne products to representing additional franchised product lines, including small school buses by Mid Bus, based in Lima, Ohio, and smaller and mid-sized commercial buses produced by Champion Bus Incorporated of Imlay City, Michigan, as well as adding dealerships for several manufacturers of wheelchair lifts and accessories.

Fincantieri also purchased from Manitowoc Marine Group a topside repair yard in Ohio and one production plant in Wisconsin, making it one of the leading mid-sized shipbuilders in the United States for commercial and government customers, including the U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard.

But while in contemporary popular imagination the term " ocean liners " evokes these transatlantic superliners, most ocean liners historically were mid-sized vessels which served as the common carriers of passengers and freight between nations and among mother countries and their colonies and dependencies in the pre-jet age.

Just a few months later, on Oct 29th 2008, Detachment 35 was named best mid-sized detachment in the nation, and awarded the prestigious " Right of Line " award.

Dates have not been established for RKO's sale of the two other stations in mid-sized markets acquired via the Yankee Network, WAAB and WICC, nor for KDB in Santa Barbara, California, acquired via Don Lee .</ ref > On the evening of July 8, 1954, WHBQ disc jockey Dewey Phillips introduced a song called " That's All Right ( Mama )", the first ever recording to air on the radio by a local singer named Elvis Presley.

The Diamondbacks are also known for the " Hometown Tour ", held in January, where selected players, management and broadcasters make public appearances, hold autograph signings, etc., in various locations around Phoenix and Tucson, as well as many small and mid-sized towns in other areas of Arizona.

In small and mid-sized companies it can also play the role of the COO.

It is also home to many mid-sized and smaller companies like Seven Corners Inc, and The Rough Notes Company.

This was also accomplished to aide in developing the Southside Industrial Park by bringing mid-sized businesses the technological access needed in an effort to bring more industry to Charlotte County.

The Tri-Cities is a mid-sized metropolitan area of approximately 264, 133 people that also includes the cities of Kennewick and Richland in 2011 estimate.

They also appropriate nests of other mid-sized songbirds as long as these are placed in suitable spots ; American robin nests are commonly used by Blue Jays, for example.

Many other mid-sized and regional Australian cities also feature pedestrian malls, examples include Langtree Avenue Mildura, Bridge Street Ballarat, Nicholas Street Ipswich, Hargreaves Street Bendigo, Maude Street Shepparton and Little Mallop Street Geelong.

However, the CLK-Class was built with a lengthened C-Class wheelbase so it could be slotted as a mid-sized vehicle, and it also featured styling cues, engines, and similar pricing to the ( W210 ) E-Class to give the impression that the ( W124 ) E-Class Coupe had been directly replaced.

During this period, the traditional cheese technique, today still preserved in the farms of the Plateau, is improved and thanks to the modern technology it also spread in the small and mid-sized dairies outspread in the territory of Asiago.

It is also the second most recent F5 tornado to have struck a central business district of a large or mid-sized city, only to the 2011 Joplin Tornado.

The University of West Florida, also known as West Florida and UWF, is a mid-sized public university located in Pensacola, Florida, United States.

It has also been a finalist in six other Pulitzer awards over the past 22 years, a record that has been unsurpassed by any mid-sized newspaper in the United States during the same time frame.

Large but slow on land and not particularly fierce as adults, they are also eaten with relish by many mid-sized birds, mammals and other larger predators.

The Mazda Persona ( also sold as the Eunos 300 ) was a mid-sized front wheel drive sedan sold in Japan in the late 1980s.

Oldsmobile and Pontiac also used the all-aluminum 215 on its mid-sized cars, the Oldsmobile F-85, Cutlass and Jetfire, and Pontiac Tempest and LeMans.

Pininfarina had also re-styled Austin's compact A40 and mid-sized A60 Cambridge ranges the year before.

The mid-sized Tempest, LeMans, and Grand LeMans series also fielded Safari wagons from 1967-1981.

This connection speed is also often used by mid-sized ( below Tier 2 ) internet customers, such as web hosting companies or smaller ISPs buying service from larger ones.

Confusingly, the current generations of Volkswagen's Passat are also colloquially referred to as " B6 ", given that they are Volkswagen's sixth generation mid-sized saloon.

A subsidiary, Eagle Quality Centers, operated in numerous mid-sized and smaller Alaskan communities, both within and outside of the Railbelt.

In the late 1980s, the government began to reform the state-owned enterprise, and during the 1990s and 2000s, many mid-sized and small sized state-owned enterprises were privatized and went public.

As with most independent stations in mid-sized markets during that period, it had difficulties from the outset in terms of getting programming with only afternoon cartoons and some reruns getting respectable ratings.

In contrast to all the other mid-sized and personal luxury two-door competition during the mid-to late-1970s, the Matador coupe did not share the requisite styling hallmarks of the era that included an upright grille, a notchback roof, and imitation " landau bars " or opera lights.

* Cessna 680 – twin-engined mid-sized business jet produced since 2004.

By the 18th century, the cello had largely replaced other mid-sized bowed instruments.

Behind the pavilion's stage is the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, an indoor venue for mid-sized performing arts companies, including the Chicago Opera Theater and Music of the Baroque.

Today New Brunswick has several mid-sized centres in Saint John, Moncton, and Fredericton but no significant population centre.

Occasional large gigs are staged at Murrayfield and Meadowbank, with mid-sized events at venues such as the Corn Exchange, HMV Picture House, the Liquid Rooms, and the Bongo Club.

Also, development of the Torana continued in with the larger mid-sized LH series released in 1974, offered only as a four-door sedan.

Before long, the CEOs and CFOs of many smaller and mid-sized companies previously limited to the slow and expensive private-placement market were making early-morning pilgrimages to Beverly Hills seeking to issue high-yield and / or convertible bonds through Drexel Burnham.

Quail is a collective name for several genera of mid-sized birds generally considered in the order Galliformes.

A mid-sized star like the Sun will remain on the main sequence for about 10 billion years.

To the left a low-mass red dwarf, in the center a mid-sized yellow dwarf and at the right a massive blue-white main sequence star.

If it does, it will develop into a red giant as described for mid-sized stars below, but never fuse helium as they do ; otherwise, it will simply contract until electron degeneracy pressure halts its collapse, becoming first a blue dwarf and then a white dwarf.

The president is elected for a one-year term and chosen from the small or mid-sized powers represented on ECOSOC.

Velociraptor was a mid-sized dromaeosaurid, with adults measuring up to long, high at the hip, and weighing up to.

Throughout 1968, Fatah and other Palestinian armed groups were the target of a major Israeli army operation in the Jordanian village of Karameh, where the Fatah headquarters — as well as a mid-sized Palestinian refugee camp — were located.

Beginning in the 1980s computer-aided design programs reduced the need of draftsmen significantly, especially in small to mid-sized companies.

Meanwhile, the huge Monaco ( Royal Monaco beginning in 1977 when the mid-sized Coronet was renamed " Monaco ") models hung around through 1977, losing sales every year, until finally being replaced by the St. Regis for 1979 following a one-year absence from the big car market.

1991 Dodge Spirit # R / T | Dodge Spirit R / TThrough the late 1980s and 1990s, Dodge's designation as the sporty-car division was backed by a succession of high-performance and / or aggressively styled models including the Daytona, mid-sized 600 and several versions of the Lancer.

Using the mid-sized Dakota pickup's chassis as a base, they built the four-door Durango SUV with seating for eight people and created a new niche.

In Africa, mid-sized antelopes provide a majority of their prey, especially impala and Thomson's gazelles.

* Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera ( 1982 – 1996 )-popular selling upscale mid-sized car based on GM's A platform.

Saturn has an additional six mid-sized moons massive enough to have achieved hydrostatic equilibrium, and Uranus has five.