But in hubs where FedEx does package sorting, a million packages can fly through in about four hours.
Since then, the airline has taken serious measures to improve its efficiency, including rebuilding its luggage system at its Atlanta hub to cut down on lost baggage, and analysing historical cancellation data to adjust the availability of spare aircraft in different hubs in order to keep flights moving.
Factory fires are also common in other manufacturing hubs in Asia including Pakistan, India and China.
Art aficionado Daniel Kany has worked in hipster hubs across the US. Now he is back in his home state, and with good reason: Portland is stepping up to bat with plans to hit an artful homerun.
You can hop from post-apocalyptic Chicago to Mars and back again and hang out in the various world hubs in between fighting against or alongside other players.
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It's a unified experience, in the way that the hubs in Windows Phone feel unified, only this is perhaps a little less elegant.
In fact, since 2008 more people than ever before live in urban hubs, and running these increasingly vast enterprises poses serious challenges.
Billionaires are more likely to be spawned in tech hubs like Silicon Valley and Seattle and the country's financial capital of New York City.
The big growth in diversity around the Puget Sound is taking place not in the city of Seattle, but in suburban hubs like Bellevue (population: 122, 000).
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Or they're consolidating copy editors (and designers) in "hubs" far away from their audiences, where they can't catch a reporter who misspells Dan Smyth's name as Smith.
With labor costs continuing to soar in production hubs like Svalbard, Norway and Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland, price hikes were all but inevitable, predicted many Wall Street analysts.
Miller, who tracks listings and sales in quarterly Douglas Elliman reports, estimates that in international hubs like Miami, FL, 70% of all second quarter home sales were cash.
More than 500 people - some lawyers, a lot of paralegals - are employed in regional hubs, where people access the law through Co-operative Legal Services, mostly by phone or email.
However, what we found fascinating was that the third wave was not simply about virtual working, but was more about the re-emergence of co-located work in neighborhood hubs and local coffee shops.
In the hubs of technology and commerce, like San Francisco and New York, growth is hampered by expensive rents, living expenses, and start-up costs, often stemming from restrictive building codes and outdated zoning laws.
With a blended learning approach, you can provide them with videos and interactive assignments at their primary locations, and then pull them together either in regional hubs or your main office for one-one-one and group discussions as well as mini-lectures.
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West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust has re-organised its services for Shropshire so ambulances and paramedics in the county are mainly based at two hubs in Telford and Shrewsbury.
In terms of manufacturing capability, Ford plans to create three regional hubs in China, to introduce 15 new vehicles by mid-decade, and to fill niches where it does not currently compete.
"In particular it was because of the severe weather that affected not only their hubs in Dallas and Chicago but also operations on the northeast coast, " ING Barings analyst Ray Niedl said.
It moves oil from the Athabasca oil sands region in Alberta, Canada to hubs and refineries in the US. The pipeline system spans 2, 150 miles and currently has the capacity to deliver up to 590, 000 bpd of crude oil from Canada into the US markets.
And Lord Sebastian Coe is hopeful that a legacy can be left in Stoke-on-Trent after the 2012 games, and become one of three regional hubs in the country for Paralympic rowing.
AirAsia is Asia's largest budget carrier, with hubs in Malaysia, Thailand, Japan and Indonesia.
The Kenyan government aims to become one the top 10 ICT hubs in the world.
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Ticket gates at transport hubs in the capital may be left open to reduce congestion.
He uses 200 megabit-per-second Internet backbone lines to carry his signals to hubs in Long Island, N.
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But life throws a lot of curve balls, disrupting our world in unexpected ways, resulting in new influence hubs.
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Today, it operates like a volunteer airline, with 86 hubs in 33 states.
Confident that this demand will continue to grow, they are planning big investments in new cargo hubs and planes.
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