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The major contributor was a shopping center with houses being added to the system as the subdivision developed.
According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.
This was the derivation of Alemanni used by Edward Gibbon, in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and by the anonymous contributor of notes assembled from the papers of Nicolas Fréret, published in 1753, who noted that it was the name used by outsiders for those who called themselves the Suevi.
Carnegie was a frequent contributor to periodicals on labor issues.
He was a prominent contributor to the ABA book Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association.
The Blackstone Valley was a major contributor of the American Industrial Revolution where Samuel Slater built his first textile mill.
As well as writing comedy, Anderson is also a frequent contributor to newspapers, and was a regular columnist in the Sunday Correspondent.
Jones was a historical authority as well as a major contributor to the development of animation throughout the 20th century.
C. L. Moore was an active member of the Tom and Terri Pinckard Science Fiction literary salon, and was a frequent contributor to literary discussions with the regular membership including Larry Niven, Norman Spinrad.
He was a prominent person during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder and chief editor of and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d ' Alembert.
A major contributor was Elihu Palmer ( 1764 – 1806 ), who wrote the " Bible " of American deism in his Principles of Nature ( 1801 ) and attempted to organize deism by forming the " Deistical Society of New York ".
Best recognized for his essays and unsigned " Notes and Comment " pieces, he gradually became the most important contributor to The New Yorker at a time when it was arguably the most important American literary magazine.
Some have speculated that a contributor to nouvelle cuisine was World War II when animal protein was in short supply during the German occupation.
David Astor was looking for a provocative contributor for The Observer and invited Orwell to write for him — the first article appearing in March 1942.
Although Parsons was an equal contributor to the band, he was not regarded as a full member of The Byrds by the band's record label, Columbia Records.
The Eddys were fellow writers, and Mr. Eddy was a frequent contributor to Weird Tales.
A frequent contributor was Bertus Borgers ( saxophone ).
( in the Book of the Devil Valley Master ), A main contributor to this field was Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ), a polymath scientist and statesman who was the first to describe the magnetic-needle compass used for navigation, as well as discovering the concept of true north.
India has taken part in several UN peacekeeping missions and in 2007, it was the second-largest troop contributor to the United Nations.

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Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.
There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.
Col. Henri Garvier was one of New Orleans' most important and enlightened slave owners.
Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.
Lincoln was historian and economist enough to know that a substantial portion of this wealth had accumulated in the hands of the descendants of New Englanders engaged in the slave trade.
It is true that New England, more than any other section, was dedicated to education from the start.
Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.
While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.
the Honorable Robert Wagner, Sr., at that time a justice of the New York Supreme Court, was on the reception committee.
City editor Victor Watson of the New York American was a man of brooding suspicions and mysterious shifts of mood.
A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.
it was visiting University of North Carolina alumni in New York to ask them for contributions to the Graham Memorial Building fund.
This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.
He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??
and once when he came to see us in New York he walked away in a rainstorm, unwilling to hear of a taxi or even an umbrella, although he was at the time ninety years old.
Blackman was to be in New York by February 2, because they were sailing at 12:01 next morning.
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
Only a native New Yorker could believe that New York is now or ever was a literary center.

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I was also publicly reprimanded, dragged through the mud by the radical press and made a figure of fun by such leftist publications as The New Republic, The New Yorker, Time and The Christian Science Monitor.
Mr. John Magee, whose work has been discussed in this chapter, was quoted in a New Yorker Magazine profile as saying: `` Of course, you have to remember it's a good thing for us chartists that there aren't more of us.
The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?
The original team was christened the Blue Angels in 1946, when one of the pilots came across the name of New York City's Blue Angel Nightclub in The New Yorker magazine ; the team introduced themselves as the " Blue Angels " to the public for the first time on 21 July 1946, in Omaha, Nebraska.
Not long after The New Yorker was founded in 1925, White would submit manuscripts to it.
It was acquired by Samuel Ellis, a colonial New Yorker possibly from Wales, around the time of the American Revolution.
An annual " It's a Wonderful Life " celebration that Capra attended in 1981, during which he said, " This is one of the proudest moments of my life ," was recounted in The New Yorker.
LaGuardia was the city's first Italian-American mayor, but was not a typical Italian New Yorker.
It appeared in the June 19, 1965 edition of The New Yorker — infamously taking up almost the entire magazineand was the last of Salinger's works to be published in his lifetime.
According to Frances FitzGerald in an April 1987 New Yorker article, " They epitomized the excesses of the 1980s ; the greed, the love of glitz, and the shamelessness ; which in their case was so pure as to almost amount to a kind of innocence ".
The same year her first story (" The Lucky Ones ") was published in the November 16, 1946 issue of The New Yorker, and credited to " Alice Bradley " in the magazine itself, but to " Alice Bradley Sheldon " in the magazine's DVD index.
The book was a nominee for the National Book Award in 1978, and received dozens of positive book reviews, including those by well-known critics such as John Updike in The New Yorker, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the New York Times, and Marshall McLuhan in the Toronto Globe and Mail.
His discovery was profiled in a 2007 article in The New Yorker magazine.
By the early 1940s the dance was known as " New Yorker " on the West Coast.
It was on March 14, 1914 that Albert L. Hopkins, a young New Yorker trained in engineering, succeeded Post as President of the company.
The article was first published in The New Yorker in 2000.
David worked for The New Yorker as a general reporter and war correspondent before he was killed by a landmine near Aachen, Germany in October 1944, less than one month after his arrival to the European Theater of war.
He was a New Yorker who moved to Montana to become a rancher after Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt rejects his marriage proposal.
Tom Wolfe wrote about the magazine: " The New Yorker style was one of leisurely meandering understatement, droll when in the humorous mode, tautological and litotical when in the serious mode, constantly amplified, qualified, adumbrated upon, nuanced and renuanced, until the magazine ’ s pale-gray pages became High Baroque triumphs of the relative clause and appository modifier ".
A New Yorker look-alike, Novy Ochevidets ( The New Eyewitness ), was launched in Russia in 2004.
The average household income of The New Yorker readers in 2009 is $ 109, 877 ( the average income in 1980 was $ 62, 788 and the average income in 1990 was $ 70, 233 ).

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