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Rescue Crews Race Clock To Find, Save Ike Victims - Seattle Times
rescue crews canvassed neighborhoods inundated by ike's storm surge early sunday morning, racing against time to save those who spent a second harrowing night trapped amid flattened houses, strewn debris and downed power lines. one team of paramedics ...
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the "emerald city" of seattle is just a 3 1/2-hour flight from anchorage, which makes it the perfect destination when looking for travel deals or planning an extended weekend getaway. whether you have a family or you're looking for romantic r&r, seattle will fill your prescription for fun.
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Tourist Trade In Snohomish County Slows
at marriott town place suites in mukilteo, business is down, just like it is at hotels and motels around snohomish county. "they have slipped a little bit," said rob beggs, the mukilteo inn's director of sales.
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Saving Texas Stalwarts A Race Against Time - Seattle Post Intelligencer
galveston, texas -- rescue crews canvassed neighborhoods inundated by ike's storm surge early sunday morning in a race against time to rescue those who faced a second harrowing night trapped amid flattened houses, strewn debris and downed power lines ...
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An Obsession With Harem Pants Gloms Onto America's Top Designers - Seattle Post Intelligencer
new york -- how does a seemingly unusual trend such as harem pants end up on almost every runway at new york fashion week? the spring previews, which ended friday, brought together more than 100 designers. but the fashion world is a small one. for ...
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Airfares
seattle (ap) — expect to spend more to fly home for the holidays this year, say the experts at live search farecast. fares for thanksgiving 2008...
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Expect To Spend More On Holiday Airfare
seattle -- expect to spend more to fly home for the holidays this year, say the experts at live search farecast.
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Tourist Trade In Snohomish County Slows - Everett Herald
at marriott town place suites in mukilteo, business is down, just like it is at hotels and motels around snohomish county. "they have slipped a little bit," said rob beggs, the mukilteo inn's director of sales. he added the ongoing machinists strike ...
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Expect To Spend More On Holiday Airfare - Batavia Sun
seattle -- expect to spend more to fly home for the holidays this year, say the experts at live search farecast. fares for thanksgiving 2008 are up 31 percent from 2007, while christmas and new year's fares are up 30 percent, according to the web ...
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Limo Service, Execs Say Less Is More
when top officials with the national basketball association arrived at the skirvin hilton hotel in april to hear the pitch for relocating the supersonics from seattle to oklahoma city, their rides were black mercedes. not one single limousine could be found. "people don't want to flaunt what they're doing,” said john williams, the skirvin's general manager. "they really want to downplay the ...
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Nw Q&a | An Outdoors Base In B.c.
setting up a base for outdoor adventures near vancouver, b.c.
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Restaurant And Catering Industry - Orlando Sentinel
the words "tight-knit" can be overused when describing a community, but not in relay, where neighbors have formed their own book and card-playing clubs. residents get together in the baltimore suburb for the "victorian tea" in the spring and for ...
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Limo Service, Execs Say Less Is More - Daily Oklahoman
when top officials with the national basketball association arrived at the skirvin hilton hotel in april to hear the pitch for relocating the supersonics from seattle to oklahoma city , their rides were black mercedes. okc thunder agree to deal with ...
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Tropea: A Sweet Stop On Italy's Southern Coast
rick steves' followers have the cinque terre, the five cliff-hugging villages along the northern italian coast. european jet-setters camp out in villas on the island of capri. tour groups favor sorrento and the gravelly beaches of positano along the amalfi coast.
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Tech Review | Portable Printers
computers have gotten smaller and smaller over the years. you can slip into a briefcase a fully functional 2-pound laptop that's still big enough for touch typing. and if you don't need to touch type, you can get a heck of a lot of computing power in a cellphone kept in your shirt pocket.
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Alexander Mccall Smith: From Botswana To Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico - Daily Telegraph
"max? i’m so sorry." as he strides down the drive to meet me, alexander mccall smith is looking sheepish. in his hand, incongruously, there is a large spade. it looks like a stage prop intended for a different character. for a split second, the ...
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An Opportunity To Grow Good Jobs - Gainesville Sun
gainesville has a top notch university, which receives public grants from institutions such as the national institute of health and dept. of defense, in excess of $560 million. this is more than any other institution in the southeast and more than ...
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Business Briefs: Stocks Move Up
kaiser permanente hawaii has committed $100,000 in grants for local nonprofit organizations as part of its 50th anniversary milestone.
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Seafood Distributor True World Foods Receives Usdc 'grade A' Certification For Its Tuna And Salmon Products
true world foods llc, the premier wholesaler and distributor of tuna and a full line of other seafood products to more than 8,000 restaurants, hotels and other foodservice customers across north america, announced that it has achieved usdc u.s. 'grade a' certification for its fresh and frozen tuna and salmon products.
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Competition Proved Fierce For Fewer Numbers Of Tourists - Victoria Times Colonist
competition in victoria was fierce this summer for fewer american and lower mainland visitors, according to gloomy tourism statistics compiled over recent months. occupancy in victoria hotels fell in july and hotels responded by dropping rates ...
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