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The rapid expansion of West Heath and its transition from open farm land to residential suburb of Birmingham had commenced in the years immediately after the Second World War when several extensive estates of pre-fab houses were quickly erected to house returning servicemen and families made homeless during wartime bombing raids.
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The relatively recent novel vector has facilitated a far more rapid spread than the simple expansion of habitats North through global warming.
This rapid expansion caused the Universe to cool and resulted in its present continuously expanding state.
The 17th-century rise of Britain's American colonies and the rapid 18th-century expansion of the Atlantic slave trade had made Bristol an important international sea port, and Teach was most likely raised in what was the second-largest city in England.
The origins of the building society as an institution lie in late-18th century Birmingham – a town which was undergoing rapid economic and physical expansion driven by a multiplicity of small metalworking firms, whose many highly skilled and prosperous owners readily invested in property.
In physical cosmology, cosmic inflation, cosmological inflation or just inflation is the theorized extremely rapid exponential expansion of the early universe by a factor of at least 10 < sup > 78 </ sup > in volume, driven by a negative-pressure vacuum energy density.
The rapid expansion immediately after the Big Bounce explains why the present Universe at largest scales appears spatially flat, homogeneous and isotropic.
The current prevalent theories are that the initial arrival of humans to the continent took place either along the Pacific coast southwards in a rather rapid expansion long preceding the Clovis culture, or even trans-Pacific migration.
Hydration produces ettringite, and specialized physical properties ( such as expansion or rapid reaction ) are obtained by adjustment of the availability of calcium and sulfate ions.
Labor conflicts followed the industrial boom and the rapid expansion of the labor pool, including the Haymarket affair on May 4, 1886.
The city was at the forefront of Ireland's rapid economic expansion during the Celtic Tiger period, with enormous private sector and state development of housing, transport and business.
The Dublin region is the economic centre of Ireland, and was at the forefront of the country's rapid economic expansion during the Celtic Tiger period.
The rapid expansion of combustion gases then drives the piston downward, supplying power to the crankshaft.
The rapid expansion in electrical technology at this time transformed industry and society.
Ironically the rate of promotion of indigenous Fijian officers had been very rapid after the 1987 coup, and subsequent expansion of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces.
Millions of ethnic Germans fled from Communist areas into West Germany, which experienced rapid economic expansion, and became the dominant economy in Western Europe.
After the war, which disrupted maritime commerce, the colony underwent rapid expansion.
In the case of rapid expansion of the money supply, prices rise rapidly in response to the increased supply of money relative to the supply of goods and services, and in the case of loss of confidence, the monetary authority responds to the risk premiums it has to pay by “ running the printing presses .”
In the monetary model, hyperinflation is a positive feedback cycle of rapid monetary expansion.
When businesspeople perceive that the issuer is committed to a policy of rapid currency expansion, they mark up prices to cover the expected decay in the currency's value.
While industrialised countries saw an increase in premiums of around 1. 4 %, insurance markets in emerging economies saw rapid expansion with 11 % growth in premium income.
The 1990s saw a rapid expansion in banking, investment, and insurance services.
The University's rapid expansion has created tension in the city-university relationship with issues such as growth planning.
Kinglassie's development during the late 19th and early 20th Century was marked by its rapid expansion to house mine workers.
In some cases it acted as a labor union, negotiating with employers, but it was never well organized, and after a rapid expansion in the mid-1880s, it suddenly lost its new members and became a small operation again.
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In West Africa, clicks have been reported allophonically, and similarly in German, faint clicks have been recorded in rapid speech where the consonants and overlap between words.
Beginning with the replacement of the Reichsmark with the Deutsche Mark as legal tender, a lasting period of low inflation and rapid industrial growth was overseen by the government led by German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his minister of economics, Ludwig Erhard, raising West Germany from total wartime devastation to one of the most developed nations in modern Europe.
Gates to the West include not only the newly reconstructed Kuressaare Airport and Roomassaare Port, the operation of modern ferries between Saaremaa and the mainland but also the rapid development of the telecommunications, highly important for the island.
The land grant railroads, receiving millions of acres of public land, sold bonds based on the value of the lands, sold the land to settlers, used the money to build their railroads, and contributed to a rapid settlement of the West.
Mayor Daley took over the Chicago Public Schools, developed tourism, the construction of Millennium Park, increased environmental efforts and the rapid development of the city's North Side, as well as the near South and West sides.
The GDR regime considered economic benefits as a major advantage, but the party viewed with misgivings the rapid increase in travel by West Germans to and through the GDR.
It also operates a bus rapid transit route from West Valley City, designated as 35M.
The city began to experience rapid growth in the 1970s, when the area that is now West Valley City consisted of the four separate communities of Hunter, Granger, Chesterfield, and Redwood.
The Meiji period marks the re-opening of Japan to the West, and a period of rapid industrialization.
This period of rapid economic growth and soaring prosperity in North and West ( but not the South ) saw the U. S. become the world's dominant economic, industrial and agricultural power.
Expansion westward to Fulton Industrial Boulevard through the use of either heavy rail extension or bus rapid transit has been proposed as an extension of the West Line since the system was originally planned.
Though construction had already begun on the Eglinton West subway in Toronto, a proposed rapid transit line to ultimately link the main north / south subway line of the city with the suburbs and airport, funding was cancelled shortly after Harris ' election.
Abbots Bromley has a community first responder group working with the West midlands ambulance service. This charitable organisation provides rapid response medical care to the village and surrounding areas. The group was the first in South Staffordshire and is run by volunteers.
The most rapid growth in the population of adults aged 65 years and older was evident in the West ( 23. 5 %), which showed an increase from 6. 9 million in 2000 to 8. 5 million in 2010.
* May 6-The Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad is opened in Chicago as the first electrically operated rapid transit system in the United States, including the first completed Scherzer rolling lift bridge.
The Blue Line consists of a ( 68-minute ride ) long trunk line in the Chicago Transit Authority's rapid transit system which extends through Chicago's Loop from O ' Hare International Airport at the far northwest end of the city, through downtown via the Milwaukee-Dearborn subway, and across the West Side to its southwest end at Forest Park ( Congress ).
In the 19th century the importance of Klang greatly increased by the rapid expansion of tin mining as a result of the increased demand for tin from the West.
* Industrial Revolution, an 18th – 19th-century period of rapid technological development in the West
After a rapid loss of altitude, the crew regains control of the aircraft and makes an emergency landing at West Palm Beach Airport without injury to any of the 27 people on board.
A traditional form of music and dance is known as The Bermuda Gombey, which is of West African derivation, and involves rhythmic chanting and rapid drumbeat.
The ongoing gentrification of downtown Toronto has been pushing farther outwards from downtown ( see Queen Street West, Niagara, Distillery District ), encouraging rapid development.
A factor in the rapid rise of school bus sales in the 1950s ( especially on the West Coast ) was the baby boomers ' entry into school.
US West became a pioneer in the introduction and rapid system-wide implementation of telephone technologies designed by Bellcore ( now Telcordia Technologies ) in the 1980s and 1990s.
First, the roof had been designed to gradually release rainwater as the sewers in the West Bottoms could not adequately handle the rapid runoff because of the nearby confluence of the Missouri River and Kansas River.
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