The bank regularly sponsored youth athletic teams and frequently contributed to local fundraising drives.
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In many communities, car dealers are the most prominent local businesses, supporting everything from neighborhood clean-up drives to local Little League teams.
While market size drives local sponsorship deals and TV money, souped-up venues that drive revenue through high ticket prices, luxury suites and corporate packages are the order of the day.
Dodd said many people are holding clothing drives to help benefit local residents, but that can pose problems for charities and other groups that might not have the room to store the items.
The local hero pulled a couple of drives into the heavy Newcastle rough early in the back nine but he quickly got back into the groove by hitting a 320-yard drive on 13 which set up a birdie and his play during the remainder of the round was impeccable.
But he's spent countless hours pounding the pavement for local candidates and holding voter-registration drives in his hometown of Fort Collins, Colo.
Mentorship of entrepreneurs drives private sector development, and creates local heroes.
Local prices differ based on factors like vehicle population, which drives demand, and proximity to oil refineries, which affects distribution costs.
If given the option to get rid of constant funding appeals, more listeners might just join their local public radio station, further reducing the need for fund drives at all.
But the NHL, the City of Glendale, and our local paper the Arizona Republic (after all, the sports section drives a lot of revenue) have all piled on Goldwater.
It makes the crops local farmers grow almost worthless, which makes them stop growing food and drives them to move to places where foreigners pass out free food, which lays waste to those areas which must produce food after that alphabet soup of aid agencies have moved on to the next crisis.
The need for local storage has made small storage devices one of the fastest growing markets for hard disk drives and soon perhaps also for flash memory.
Systemic has already started similar drives in Angola, Ghana, and South Africa, creating partnerships between Brazilian producers and local distributors.
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The reform legislation still contains a controversial ban on so-called "soft money, " the money raised by national, state and local parties and purportedly used only for party-building and get-out-the-vote drives, rather than direct help for candidates.
While it's still not possible to walk into your local Chevy dealer and fly out with a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) Camaro that drives through all three dimensions, there are engineers across the world dedicating their lives to making the dream possible.
Many parents mistakenly assume that when they give money to their local PBS station, they are supporting Sesame Street, especially because PBS prominently displays Sesame Street in its fundraising drives.
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