• If you haven't heard of the Long Island town of Brentwood, take a moment to pity the place.

    FORBES: Real Estate Advisor

  • In 1951, when Rudy was seven, Harold moved the family to the Long Island town of Garden City South, settling in a neighborhood of neat new houses, near a new Catholic grade school that had been built to accommodate the city exodus.

    NEWYORKER: Mayberry Man

  • If Mr Welch had merely been a brutal fad-master, he would have been run out of town long ago.

    ECONOMIST: The revolutionary spirit

  • The power and militancy of Local 1877, a novelty in a town long inhospitable to unions, are the result of immigration.

    ECONOMIST: Trade unions

  • Charmin had set up what appeared to be a 10-hole privy station on 42nd Street, which came in handy after a long walk across town.

    FORBES: Electric Car Rentals Start Next Week

  • Mark, you've been around this town long enough to understand that only by working together are we going to be able to find solutions to difficult problems such as this.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Not so long ago this mill town on the Naugatuck River was an industrial powerhouse.

    FORBES: Oh, the Brass!

  • For the first hour, we listened to Mr. Ehrmann talk of how San Francisco had long been a cocktail town as far back as its Gold Rush days.

    WSJ: Taking Cocktail-Making Classes

  • " At a February meeting in Sea Bright, just up the shore from Long Branch, the town's mayor acknowledged, "People fear a heartless government coming in and taking away their land.

    WSJ: Battle of the Beach

  • After an hour-long debate, the town signed off.

    FORBES: Verizon's Big TV Bet Goes Small-Town

  • Bellies full, we drove back down PR-184 following the falling sun toward the Caribbean Sea, cruising along the coast to reach Ponce, a colonial port town where long ago pirates raided Spanish ships coming into the harbour.

    BBC: Puerto Rico��s Pork Highway

  • Located between the coastal cities of Ranchos Palos Verdes and Long Beach, the town is , among other things, the birthplace of influential 1980s punk rockers the Minutemen, one of America's most important working ports, and a demographically diverse blue-collar mix of Latino, Croatian and Italian immigrants.

    BBC: The hidden treasures of seaside San Pedro

  • Perry, Saunders and Middleton all have businesses in the town and are long-standing supporters.

    BBC: Takeover could help form - McEwan

  • You see them every night outside of Broadway theaters: long lines of limousines and town cars and their drivers in crisp white shirts and dark suits.

    NPR: Broadway Limo Drivers Rate the Tony Nominees

  • Several other high profile annual tour stops, from San Antonio to New Orleans to the long running Heritage at Harbour Town are held on his courses.

    FORBES: Pete Dye Golf Trail Debuts in Indiana - Today!

  • That too is a surprise, especially in a town not famous for long time horizons or perspective.

    FORBES: A Season For Surprises

  • The town has had a long tradition of manipulating the rules to benefit insiders, most notably Roski.

    FORBES: City of Greed

  • In August 2011 the CBC organised a month-long series of job fairs and town-hall meetings in Atlanta, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles and Miami.

    ECONOMIST: Barack Obama and black voters

  • In Fujian province each spring, tens of thousands of the faithful parade from town to town in religious "long marches" celebrating localized Taoist gods.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | China: Inside China's Search for Its Soul

  • Long before dawn the roads into town were clogged with horse and donkey carts on their way to one of the last of the great Central Asian bazaars.

    BBC: Following the Silk Road to the end of China

  • The bartender, Joe, and the couple sitting next to us at the bar explained (in delightfully thick Long Island accents) that the town really comes alive in the warmer months.

    BBC: The Bureau of Unknown Destinations

  • "My husband and father lost their jobs during the Thatcher years and although this was a long time ago, and the town had picked itself up, I felt I could not take part, " she said.

    BBC: Corby councillors accused of Thatcher 'disrespect'

  • And as long as there are fairground grandstands on summer nights, as long as there are small-town ballparks with stages where the pitcher's mound should be, the singers will get to keep delivering the goods.

    CNN: What's better than a Grammy? Immortality

  • It was, and remains, on Coyote Hill Road, in Palo Alto, nestled in the foothills on the edge of town, in a long, low concrete building, with enormous terraces looking out over the jewels of Silicon Valley.

    NEWYORKER: Creation Myth

  • The case has attracted a Wikileaks-style group, called Local Leaks, which has compiled a long dossier accusing authorities in the town of not pursuing the case aggressively because they wish to shield members of the football team from punishment.

    FORBES: Lessons From Steubenville

  • Visitors pass through miles of wheat fields before arriving in town, and agriculture has long been the mainstay of the economy.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Glamorous Aspen has long since left behind its humble mining town roots, and housing prices reflect the influx of CEOs, Hollywood stars and wealthy jetsetters.

    BBC: Living in: Great cities for outdoor adventures

  • Not so long ago, 20% of the town's 85 shops were vacant.

    ECONOMIST: Small towns

  • Bellamy's high-profile year-long loan signing to his home-town club had dominated the build-up to this fixture between the Championship's two longest serving managers.

    BBC: Cardiff 4-0 Doncaster

  • Gorges and karst plateaux feature 700 caves, hundreds of sinkholes, a 9-km-long thermal-water maze under a town and more than 1, 600 clear-water springs.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

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