The idea that states can build biotech parks to make up for job losses in widget factories might reduce unemployment, but is likely to lead to income inequality over the long term.

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Peterborough City Council is proposing to build renewable energy parks on three sites near the city.

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Nor did the city build huge office parks which might now be vacant.

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The council wants to build solar and wind parks at three sites it owns outside the city, near Newborough.

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At the helm of Six Flags and its predecessor since 1989, Burke borrowed billions to buy parks and build harrowing rides.

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Asian governments invite Disney and Universal Studios to build ever-bigger parks on their territory in the hope that this will spark a tourist boom, which it usually does.

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Glasgow were overpowered by a very physical home side and made too many errors to build any momentum, while Dan Parks had a rare off night - missing eight points' worth of kicks.

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Plans to build what developers claimed would be one of world's largest water parks have been abandoned.

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Local governments, which raced to build ever-bigger leisure centres in the 1980s, are now paying more attention to their parks departments.

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Together with another local developer he had the rights to 65 acres of waterfront land and a master plan to build 3, 100 housing units and 200, 000 square feet of commercial and retail space, along with parks and marinas.

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