Australian troops patrolled the streets of the capital in fast armored personnel carriers and, by Thursday, controlled the big airport near the town of Baucau.
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Your customers must be reminded you exist to keep them from driving by on the way to the Big Box Retailers in the Big Mall one town over.
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But in Strpce, Serb KPS officers still take their orders from headquarters in Urosevac, the nearest big Albanian town, arguing that the local community needs their protection.
For people accustomed to the bustle of this "big small town, " the quiet was unsettling.
Mingus failed to mention to the interviewer that, a decade before, as the big Town Hall concert loomed and arrangers were frantically arranging, Knepper and Mingus had argued over getting the parts copied in time.
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Prices are also 9% lower than at the big hospitals in town, says Jon Soderholm, the heart hospital's president. (Sanford says it's impossible to accurately compare prices.) The only thing that the heart hospital is guilty of, in Soderholm's mind, is having a 70% market share.
In Bedminster, the big question is: Will the Town Team's endeavours last?
That created a 180-mile round trip to buy wardrobe basics, but it also left a big hole in the town's main drag.
By contrast, when Mr Obama addressed the NAACP in Cincinnati, 5, 000 people turned up to watch his speech on a big screen in the town square.
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"I think that our people have to be more real and creative - If government builds a new feeder road to a village, it makes it possible for a farmer to transport more of his produce to the big town to sell on market day, " argues Anthony Osei, deputy minister of finance.
Whatever water manages to get to Texas is destined for the town of Pecos, the last big farm community to use the river before it joins the Rio Grande.
"There are a lot of companies in the business of grabbing as many people as possible with low flat-rate pricing, so when the big boys come to town they can sell their subscriber base and move to the Caribbean, " says Rapp.
The allure of hiring a big shot from out of town seems to entice many business owners who are trying to run with the big dogs.
On Tuesday, Mr Bush was in Pittsburgh, a big steel town and home of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team.
"It does not include a big night out on the town, it's going out for a cup of coffee, " says Hirsch.
But they planned to walk to the nearest big town about 40 miles away so that they can watch me on television.
So, yes, it became a big influence on town planning and the American imagination of what it's like to live in a small environment.
Not quite midway between Tinsel Town and the Big Apple, the Windy City has just the right mix of panache and attitude to hold its own in the film and TV industry.
They might matter in districts like Ohio's 15th, which covers part of Columbus, a big university town, and where the Republican candidate currently leads the Democrat who narrowly defeated him in 2008.
Islamists are reported to have pulled out of Gao and the historic town of Timbuktu, two of the big population centres that they overran in the north last year.
During a three hour Acela train ride to New York from Massachusetts on Oct. 24, those stories had me thinking about the small town that made me, to the big cities that broke me.
Mr. Heartthrob, Mr. Senior Football Star, Mr. Astounding Catch, from the rich, Cadillac-driving end of town where the mining-company big shots lived.
The vehicle found Thursday in the ski resort town of Big Bear Lake was so charred that investigators couldn't be more specific about the nature of its contents, Sgt.
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Across the nation, other Thanksgiving parades were under way, from small-town America to virtually every big city in the land.
Both its small cites and one big town, Portland, were outperforming the national norms.
This has not happened, for instance, in Samarra, the first big Sunni town to be retaken from insurgents.
Local design company KNA Creative is collating photographs and memories from 60 years of the festival for a commemorative booklet, and organisers plan to show some of those on a big screen in the centre of town.
There will be big screens set up in the town, with 35, 000 fans expected to turn out to watch, and the rest of the country has been captivated by 'little' Twente's battle with the giants of Ajax.
The tournament, which takes place in the third week of May, has been held in the New York State town of the same name since 1979 with big names such as Annika Sorenstam, Patty Sheehan and Juli Inkster among the winners.
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