In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.

The Senate put other business aside as it moved with unaccustomed speed and unanimity to pass -- 85 to 0 -- the largest peacetime defense budget in U.S. history.

It provides investment products and services and attracts the majority of the corporate business deals in The Bahamas, most recently acting as financial advisor and placement agent for the largest Initial Public Offering ( IPO ) ever in The Bahamas with the IPO of Commonwealth Brewery, a Heineken subsidiary.

In 1986, Bombardier acquired Canadair after the Canadian government-owned aircraft manufacturing company had recorded the largest corporate loss in Canadian business history.

The industry is concentrated mainly in Guayaquil, the largest industrial center, and in Quito where in recent years the industry has grown considerably, this city is also the largest business center of the country.

In January 2010, the Kabul office of New Ansari Exchange, Afghanistan's largest hawala money transfer business, was shuttered following a raid by the Sensitive Investigative Unit, the country's national anti-political corruption vetted and trained by the US Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ), allegedly because this company could be involved in laundering profits from the illicit opium trade and moving the cash earned by Taliban through extortion and drug trafficking.

The country is also well known for its influential and innovative business economic sector, an industrious and competitive agricultural sector ( Italy is the world's largest wine producer ), and for its creative and high-quality automobile, industrial, appliance and fashion design.

Jardines has been in the insurance broking business since its earliest days in Canton and JLT, which is quoted on the London Stock Exchange, is one of the largest companies of its kind in the world.

The family business, known as Friedrich Krupp AG, was the largest company in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century.

Many of the largest banks were hit hard by bad loan portfolios and forced to merge or go out of business.

The Lansing Metropolitan Area, colloquially referred to as " Mid-Michigan ", is an important center for educational, cultural, governmental, business, and high-tech manufacturing, including two medical schools, one veterinary school, two nursing schools, two law schools, including the nation's largest law school ( Thomas M. Cooley Law School ), a Big Ten Conference university ( Michigan State ), the Michigan State Capitol, the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, a federal court, the Library of Michigan and Historical Center, and headquarters of four national insurance companies.

BI Norwegian Business School former name BI Norwegian School of Management () is the largest business school in Norway and the second largest in all of Europe.

David Sarnoff, whose ambition and business acumen had helped RCA become one of the world's largest companies, turned the company over to his son Robert in 1970.

It enabled the construction of the world's largest facility dedicated exclusively to stem cell research, an entirely new campus for the business school, added dramatically to the law school, a brand-new engineering quad, created a new art and art history building, an on-campus concert hall, a new art museum, and a planned expansion of the medical school, among others.

* 2007 – AOL, once the largest ISP in the U. S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, New York.

During the Vietnam War Era, Turner ’ s business prospered ; it “ had virtual monopolies in Savannah, Macon, Columbus, and Charleston ” and was “ the largest outdoor advertising company in the Southeast ,” according to " It Ain ’ t As Easy As It Looks ".

Fairfax County has a major urban business and shopping center in Tysons Corner, Virginia's largest office market.

Its business district hosts the Italian Stock Exchange and the headquarters of the largest national banks and multinational companies.

" A report by Michael Stoler in The New York Sun described a " phoenix-like resurrection " of the area, with residential, commercial, retail and hotels booming in the " third largest business district in the country.

In 2011, the Manhattan Financial District is one of the largest business districts in the United States, and second in New York City only to Midtown in terms of dollar volume of business transacted.

Fastow pressured some of the largest investment banks in the United States, such as Merrill Lynch, Citibank, and others to invest in his funds, threatening to cause them to lose Enron's future business if they did not.

Today Thessaloniki has become one of the most important trade and business hubs in Southeastern Europe, with its port, the Port of Thessaloniki being one of the largest in the Aegean and fascilitating trade throughout the Balkan hinterland.

* Armenia's largest thermal power plant which is in the town of Hrazdan and is gas-burning

It is the seat of the Ostalbkreis district, and its largest town, as well as the largest town within the Ostwürttemberg region.

* Arbroath, the largest town

The nearby town of Kishangarh is one of the largest centres for marble products, employing about 7, 000 people.

A town that only became notable in the 12th century when it became the site for the construction of Portugal's largest church.

The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, " The Accrington NORI " ( iron ), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower ; famous for its football team and for having Europe's largest collection of Tiffany Glass.

It is the largest town in the Vale of Leven, the others being Balloch, Renton, Jamestown and Bonhill ; their combined population is over 20, 000.

It is located in the southern French Alps, at the crossroads between Provence, Piedmont and the Dauphiné, and is the largest town in the Ubaye Valley.

Barcelonnette is situated in the wide and fertile Ubaye Valley, of which it is the largest town.

At one time, Glace Bay was known as the largest town in Nova Scotia, based on population.

The administrative seat of the municipality is in the largest town, Amfissa.

Dartmouth is the largest private landowner of the town of Hanover, and its total landholdings and facilities are worth an estimated $ 434 million.

* 1984 – The Summit tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million litres of petrol derails near the town of Todmorden in the Pennines.

It is the seat of local government for Fermanagh District Council, and is also the county town of Fermanagh as well as its largest town.

The Ellensburg Rodeo has been a town tradition since 1923, and is the largest rodeo in Washington state.

The population was 1, 831, 000 in the 2010 census and the largest town is Maumere.

Fort William ( ( ən ˈkʲɛrəs ̪ t ̪ ən ), " The Garrison ") is the second largest settlement in the highlands of Scotland and the largest town: only the city of Inverness is larger.

Sisimiut with approximately 5, 500 inhabitants is the second largest town, while Ilulissat is number three with ca.

Located in the region called "' t Gooi ", it is the largest town in that area.

One of the many local sites where the iron was worked at Beauport Park, to the north of the town, which employed up to one thousand men and is considered to have been the third largest in the Roman Empire.