More industrial acreage lies vacant in St. Clair county than in any other jurisdiction in the St. Louis area.

And then there is St. Louis county, where the Democratic leadership has shown little appreciation of the need for sound zoning, of the important relationship between proper land use and economic growth.

St. Louis county under its present leadership also has largely closed its eyes to the need for governmental reform, and permitted parochial interests to take priority over area-wide interests.

Some plant-location specialists take these signs to mean St. Louis county doesn't want industry, and so they avoid the area, and more jobs are lost.

`` Actually, the abuse of the process may have constituted a contempt of the Criminal court of Cook county, altho vindication of the authority of that court is not the function of this court '', said Karns, who is a City judge in East St. Louis sitting in Cook County court.

Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

William, who lived in neighboring St. Mary's parish, had taken charge and decided that it would be best for all if the plantation were operated for another year.

Without a great acceleration in the metropolitan area's economy, there will not be sufficient jobs for the growing numbers of youngsters, and St. Louis will slip into second-class status.

`` From a man in St. Louis '', Wilson said.

But Dandy had had little experience with girls on his master's plantation in Bayou St. John.

Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

Especially touching is the chapter, `` The Little Sister '', about a king's daughter who became a nun in the convent of St. Birgitta.

The writer took a class of college students to the state hospital for the mentally ill in St. Joseph, Missouri.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.

She knelt out of reverence for having read the Meditations of St. Augustine.

Indeed, he looked more like a well-fleshed lay brother of the Hospice of St. Bernard.

A contrast of the scripture reading of, let us say, St. Augustine, John Bunyan, and Thomas Jefferson, all three of whom found in such study a real source of enlightenment, can tell us a great deal about these three men and the age that each represented and helped bring to conscious expression.

If he's going to the St. Louis convention as a delegate we ought to know it.

I intend to support the nominee of the party at St. Louis, whoever he may be ''.

He had written to me about a dinner he had had with the Benedictine monks at St. Anselm's Priory in Washington.

There had been reading at table, especially from two books, Pope Gregory The Great's account of St. Scholastica in his Dialogues and my own The World Of Washington Irving.

I saw Sedgwick often before his death at ninety-five, -- he had remarried at the age of ninety, -- and he asked me, when once I returned from Rome, if I knew the Cavallinis in the church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere.

There were four from St. John's and four from Christ's, three from Pembroke, and two from each of the colleges, Jesus, Peterhouse, Queens', and Trinity, with Caius, Clare, King's, Magdalene, and Sidney supplying one each in the ordo senioritatis.

The list was headed by ( Henry ) Hutton of St. John's who was matriculated from St. John's at Easter, 1625.

But the internationalists have taken over the governing body of the bar, and when the lads met in St. Louis, it was not to grumble about the humidity but to vote unanimously that the United Nations was scarcely less than wonderful, despite an imperfection here and there.

A nuclear pacifier of these dimensions -- roughly some six and a half times bigger than anything the United States has triggered experimentally -- would certainly produce a bigger bang, and, just for kicks, Khrushchev might use it to propel the seminar of the house of delegates from St. Louis to the moon, where there wouldn't even be any beer to drink.

The study of the St. Louis area's economic prospects prepared for the Construction Industry Joint Conference confirms and reinforces both the findings of the Metropolitan St. Louis Survey of 1957 and the easily observed picture of the Missouri-Illinois countryside.

St. Louis sits in the center of a relatively slow-growing and in some places stagnant mid-continent region.

Slackened regional demand for St. Louis goods and services reflects the region's relative lack of purchasing power.

Not all St. Louis industries, of course, have a market area confined to the immediate neighborhood.

St. Clair County is a county located in west central Missouri in the United States.

The county was organized in 1841 and named for General Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the Northwest Territory.

According to the 2000 census, the county has a total area of, of which ( or 91. 36 %) is land and ( or 8. 64 %) is water ( including parts of the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair ).

St. Clair County is a county in the U. S. state of Michigan.

** Saint Clair County is the principal county in the The Blue Water Area, a subregion of the Thumb.

In 1819 and 1820, large portions of the county were removed to form the counties of Oakland, Lapeer, Genesee and St. Clair.

Lake St. Clair borders the county on the east.

St. Clair County is a county located in the U. S. state of Illinois.

The central portion of St. Clair county, sitting atop the Mississippi River bluff, is becoming increasingly suburban with new homes being built every year, particularly in Belleville, and its satellite cities.

This town is the county seat of St. Clair County along with Pell City.

The city is the county seat of St. Clair County along with Ashville.

Ashville, Alabama in the northern part of the St. Clair County, was the only county seat from 1821 to 1907.

For many years, St. Clair County was the only county in the country with two full-service county seats.

Later, Cahokia was named the county seat of St. Clair County.

Smiths Creek was the county seat of St. Clair County from 1869 until April 1871, when it was removed to Port Huron.

Port Huron is a city in the U. S. state of Michigan and the county seat of St. Clair County.

St. Clair county is part of the Detroit Metropolitan Statistical area.

* Yale is in St Clair County, but is sometimes mistaken as being in Sanilac County because it is only 2 miles from the county line.

It is the county seat of St. Clair County.

Avoca is home to a grain elevator, it is a trail head of the Wadhams to Avoca Trail and holds the Saint Clair County Road Commission Garage for the northern portion of the county.

* Washington County, with its seat at Marietta, was the first county formed in the territory, proclaimed on July 26, 1788 by territorial governor St. Clair.

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