It's involved less with building towns and more with direct combat.
Marriott also has spotted opportunities in U.S. states such as North Dakota, where some towns are building new infrastructure around the energy sector, for new high-end lodging, Mr. Sorenson said.
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But the Chinese firms were chipping away in the smaller towns and villages, building direct-sales armies to work with small shops.
In 1935 London's regional planners proposed the Metropolitan Green Belt and the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act encouraged local authorities to protect the land around towns and cities from building.
Some will be covered from other towns and others will relocate to another building such as a school or community centre.
Trains are hot and everybody (countries, states, cities and towns) wants serveral and soon a train building bubble arises and collapses and the train building business falls to less than half its its normal contribution to GDP.
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Many inhabitants, former residents of poor, charmless towns, also find a sense of community, of building something new.
In 2011, UNESCO conducted capacity building workshops for over 330 radio and newspaper journalists in the smaller towns and rural areas of Pakistan to enhance the quality of reporting and news production.
And though Schultz insists the upscale neighborhoods where Starbucks first made its mark are still not saturated, the company is also building stores in places you wouldn't have expected a decade ago: in small towns, near highways and in poorer neighborhoods.
The colonel has expensive hobbies: he is building a river through the Sahara, and wants to start work on a railway connecting the country's coastal towns.
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