As for progress, the `` backward South '' can boast of Baton Rouge, which increased its population between 1940 and 1950 by two hundred and sixty-two percent, to 126,000, the second largest growth of the period for all cities over 25,000.

The largest hurdle the Republicans would have to face is a state law which says that before making a first race, one of two alternative courses must be taken: 1

-- Stock market Tuesday staged a technical recovery, erasing all of Monday's losses in the Associated Press average and making the largest gain in about two weeks.

The orchid family is one of the two largest families of angiosperms ( the other is Asteraceae ).

The two largest basins on the plateau are the Konya Ovasi and the basin occupied by the large salt lake, Tuz Gölü.

( The largest problem that could be solved without the use of the intermediate output and input was two simultaneous equations, a trivial problem.

Juveniles may also have had different lifestyles than adults, filling predator niches between the enormous adults and the smaller contemporaneous theropods, the largest of which were two orders of magnitude smaller than adult Albertosaurus in mass.

* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

ASU's faculty and students are served by two dedicated general-topic libraries: Hayden Library, which is the largest of the ASU libraries and is located on the Tempe campus, and Fletcher Library, located on the west campus.

Mergers yield bonuses for the two shareholders who hold, respectively, the largest and second-largest interests in a chain.

The aorta (; from Greek ἀορτή-aortē, from ἀείρω-aeirō " I lift, raise ") is the largest artery in the body, originating from the left ventricle of the heart and extending down to the abdomen, where it bifurcates into two smaller arteries ( the common iliacs ).

The largest transports can only carry one or two main battle tanks.

Every year both clubs play the " Klassieker " (" The Classic "), a derby match between the teams from the two largest cities of the Netherlands.

One of the two head offices of the Aargauer Zeitung, Switzerland's fifth largest newspaper, is located in Aarau, as are the Tele M1 television channel studios, and several radio stations.

Following charges of illegal marketing, settlements by two large pharmaceutical companies in the US set records for the largest criminal fines ever imposed on corporations.

These are by far the largest forces needed for any Beethoven symphony ; at the premiere, Beethoven augmented them further by assigning two players to each wind part.

The two largest non-Christian religions are Hinduism ( 2 %) and Islam ( 1 %).

Although it has been known for a while that the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara flow into each other in an example of a density flow, findings of a study by the University of Leeds in August 2010 reveal that there is in fact an underwater channel of high density water flowing across the floor of the Bosphorus ( caused by the difference in density of the two seas ), which would be the sixth largest river on Earth if it were to be on land.

The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod ( LCMS ) and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod ( WELS ), the second and third largest Lutheran bodies in the United States and the two largest Confessional Lutheran bodies in North America, do not have a bishop as the head of the church or middle jurisdiction, practicing a form of congregationalism similar to the United Church of Christ.

In this scheme, climates are classified based on the biological effects of temperature and rainfall on vegetation under the assumption that these two abiotic factors are the largest determinants of the type of vegetation found in an area.

At the time of the battle, Sparta and Athens were the two largest city states.

Each string is a one-dimensional object, and the largest number of dimensions in which two strings will generically intersect ( and, presumably, annihilate ) is three.

Typically, the two largest coalitions split the seats in a district.

They usually deployed on the mountainous route between the two largest Croatian cities, Zagreb and Split.

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Reliance Communications and Bharti Airtel are the largest communication service providers, and offer both ISDN BRI and PRI services across the country.

The world's largest creator of Karaoke tracks, Blank Productions USA, ( since 1986 ), produces between 40 and 60 titles per month, adding to their 25, 000 title library, which is licensed to manufacturers and content providers.

In terms of quantity, the largest number of drawn map sheets is probably made up by local surveys, carried out by municipalities, utilities, tax assessors, emergency services providers, and other local agencies.

In October 2007, Comcast, one of the largest broadband Internet providers in the USA, started blocking P2P applications such as BitTorrent.

Telstra has faced competition since the early 1990s from Optus ( Australia's 2nd largest communication company ) and a number of smaller providers.

It is also the one of largest providers of distance education courses in the Nordic countries.

At the time Panama was one of the largest providers of offshore financial services in the world, but the business fled subsequent the invasion, and the British Virgin Islands was one of the main beneficiaries.

The largest providers, known as tier 1 providers, have such comprehensive networks that they never need to purchase transit agreements from other providers.

* Sequoia Voting Systems, a California-based company that is one of the largest providers of electronic voting systems in the U. S.

* Accountancy scandals – There are reports of alleged fraud at WorldCom, one of the world's largest telcos and internet service providers.

The largest Internet service providers in Iceland:

The largest Internet service providers are Bezeq international, NetVision 013 Barak, 012 smile, in addition to 35 smaller companies.

Across the UK the YMCA provides over 8, 000 bed spaces, and is thus one of the largest providers of safe supported accommodation for young people.

The Salvation Army is one of the world's largest providers of social aid, with expenditures including operating costs of $ 2. 6 billion in 2004, helping more than 32 million people in the U. S. alone.

Thrasher said that Darkcore Networks, a web host in Edmonton and a subsidiary of OA Internet, one of the largest internet service providers in Edmonton, invited Thrasher to post his comics there.

Anglia Ruskin University is one of the largest universities in the East of England, and one of the largest providers of face-to-face part-time training in the country.

In the 1980s, among the largest providers of foreign programming were Japan's Fujisankei Communications Group, which aired a morning show on weekdays, and RAI, the Italian public broadcaster which programmed two hours on weeknights, and five hours on Sunday mornings, a period which included airings of Italian soccer games.

With around 40 million narrowband lines, over 9 million broadband lines and 14 million registered Internet customers, the Broadband / Fixed Network business area is one of the largest providers in Europe.

The IRC is one of the largest providers of humanitarian assistance in Congo, where conflict and humanitarian crisis have taken the lives of 5. 4 million people since 1998, according to peer-reviewed studies by the IRC.

Many of them, from the largest global service providers to whom we connect today via wires and cables to the smallest of startup service providers are interested.