While the Chicago River historically handled much of the region's waterborne cargo, today's huge lake freighters use the city's Lake Calumet Harbor on the South Side.

While the colonial powers profited much from the region's vast resources and large market, colonial rule did develop the region to a varying extent.

While totally dominating the region's production, sparkling Champagne is not the only product that is made from the region's grapes.

) While these locations are largely the legacy of the region's historical importance as a Japanese-American population center, it has proven fortuitous for two reasons: first, it enables closer oversight of vehicle import operations at the nearby ports ; and second, it gives them proximity to the automobile customization culture that is prominent in nearby South Los Angeles.

While Meadowlands prospered and grew due to the support it provided to the region's farms, the steady decline in those same farms ( and the large families they supported ) during the mid-late 1980s and early 1990s heralded the beginning of the town's gradual decline.

While the region's cool, clear air was part of what made Saranac Lake famous, it can be a challenge.

While initially hospitable to the region's newcomers, Joseph the Elder grew wary when settlers wanted more Indian lands.

While visiting the region's cities, the player will encounter special establishments called Gyms.

While visiting the region's cities, the player encounters special establishments called Gyms.

While manufacturing has become an important part of the region's economy, most businesses are agriculturally based and agriculture remains the regional linchpin.

While traveling to Minas Gerais along this route, Emperor Pedro I found the region's climate pleasant, while staying at the farm of Correia, a Catholic priest.

While the mountain springs of East Tennessee and the cooler upper elevations of its mountainous areas have long provided a retreat from the region's summertime heat, much of East Tennessee's tourism industry is a result of land conservation movements in the 1920s and 1930s.

While KCTS is a popular source for viewing nationally-produced PBS shows, it features less programming on local public affairs than the region's other two public TV stations.

While many of the region's wines are made of 100 % Syrah, up to 20 % of Viognier can be added to the wine.

While smaller or lower purity deposits are found elsewhere in Northland, the Parengarenga area holds the region's largest silica sand resource by far.

While Chief Executive Officer of LHIN, Munter strengthened the region's health system by making strategic investments at hospitals and community-based agencies in both urban and rural areas of the Ottawa region.

While Empire operates the majority of the Atlantic region's screens, including many smaller centres, several independent theatres remain in other small centres.

While the events in Cuba absorbed most of the world's and the region's attention, information about the events in Marquetalia and their aftermath later began to be of great interest throughout Latin America.

While its industrial growth has been slightly above the region's average at 16. 4 %, it started from a very low base and therefore contributed little to overall growth.

While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

While in Puerto Rico slavery was 2 % of the population and blacks were less than 11 %, Cuba was 30 % black and slaves wee the backbone of the plantation economy.

While unsustainable imbalances may persist for long periods ( cf, Singapore and New Zealand ’ s surpluses and deficits, respectively ), the distortions likely to be caused by large flows of wealth out of one economy and into another tend to become intolerable.

While this was still a high rate of inflation, it allowed the economy to start recovering.

While the Cape Breton Regional Municipality is in transition from an industrial to a service-based economy, the rest of Cape Breton Island outside of the industrial area surrounding Sydney-Glace Bay has been more stable, with a mixture of fishing, forestry, small-scale agriculture, and tourism.

While the party advocates economic liberalism, it is committed to the social market economy.

While the economic underperformance of the Maritime economy has been long lasting, it has not always been present.

While many socialist currents advocated economic planning as an eventual substitute for the market for factors of production, some define economic planning as being based on worker-self management, with production being carried out to directly satisfy human needs, and contrast this with the concept of a command economy of the Soviet Union, which they characterize as being based on a top-down bureaucratic administration of the economy in a similar fashion to a capitalist firm.

While the transition to a market economy proved difficult, many of the post-Soviet states have been experiencing strong, resource-based economic growth in recent years, though the levels vary substantially.

While economic growth has declined since 2001 due to adverse shocks, including slowdown in the global economy and natural disasters, fiscal policy became more expansionary when privatization receipts declined.

While " glasnost " is associated with freedom of speech, the main goal of this policy was to make the country's management transparent and open to debate, thus circumventing the narrow circle of apparatchiks who previously exercised complete control of the economy.

While the economy is the base structure of society, it does not follow that everything in history is determined by the economy, just as every feature of a house is not determined by its foundations.

While the real values of the specific economic items generally stay the same in terms of relatively stable foreign currencies, in hyperinflationary conditions the general price level within a specific economy increases rapidly as the functional or internal currency, as opposed to a foreign currency.

While in Paris, Rousseau became a close friend of French philosopher Diderot and, beginning with some articles on music in 1749, contributed numerous articles to Diderot and D ' Alembert's great Encyclopédie, the most famous of which was an article on political economy written in 1755.

While some types of unemployment may occur regardless of the condition of the economy, cyclical unemployment occurs when growth stagnates.

While change has been substantial, the economy remains regulated.

While Adam Smith portrayed mercantilism as supportive of strict controls over the economy, many mercantilists disagreed.

While petroleum has decreased in importance in recent years due to depleting reserves and growth in other industries, it is still the mainstay of the economy.

While transforming the country to a market-oriented economy during 1992 – 1997, the government privatized some banks, recapitalized the rest and introduced legal reforms that made the sector competitive.

While the results overall have been impressive, many large state-owned industrial enterprises, particularly the railroad, mining, steel, and defense sectors, have remained resistant to change and the downsizing required to survive in a market-based economy.

While Roosevelt ’ s ‘ walk softly and carry a big stick ’ as well as the Canal Company ’ s apartheid administrative policies, early on, have been the subject of much criticism, the fact is that, beyond the financial injection to the country ’ s economy and workforce, the changes brought about by the canal venture were largely positive for Panama.

While Peru was previously marked by terrorism, hyperinflation, and government intervention in the economy, the Government of Peru under former President Alberto Fujimori took the steps necessary to bring those problems under control.