Since the Seattle deal emerged in January, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a former NBA player, has worked tirelessly to find a group that would buy the team and to cobble together a plan for a new downtown arena.
For his part, Blixseth moved to dismiss the Petition, on the basis that he had resided outside Seattle since 2007, and that he had no business, place of business, or property in Nevada.
In total, the Brewers have been infamously defined by 28 losing seasons since its inception as the Seattle Pilots in 1969.
Especially King Felix, he's been playing since he was 16 with Seattle.
Using greeters to spook potential bank robbers has spread quickly since 2006, when a Seattle FBI agent, Lawrence Carr, included the idea in a widely disseminated program taught to bank security officers called SafeCatch.
Since UPS began shuttling parcels from Seattle department stores with a Model T Ford and a few motorcycles in the early 1900s, it has become an almost invisible hand in the U.S. economy (see chart).
The eastern suburbs have been home to many of Seattle's wealthy residents since the late 1800s, but the software boom in the 1990s sparked new interest in Medina, Bellevue and Mercer Island, says John Deely, principal managing broker at Coldwell Banker Bain based in Seattle.
Since big-time pro sports came to Seattle in 1967, the opportunities for championships have been fairly plentiful.
You may be out of luck if you live where reception is poor, which includes my house in Seattle and much of New York since the World Trade Center antennas were destroyed.
Witness David Axt David Axt , a 39-year-old Seattle architect who has played electric guitar since high school.
Witness David Axt , a 39-year-old Seattle architect who has played electric guitar since high school.
Amazon has been installing similar lockers in malls and convenience stores in such cities as Seattle, New York and San Francisco since 2011.
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Boeing (nyse: BA - news - people) is leaving Seattle, the company's home since William Boeing founded it in 1916, when military aircraft were still made of birch and canvas.
This last part is important, since Amazon.com just happens to be based in Seattle.
The Cooperstown-bound Yankee captain has amassed a wide array of individual and team accolades since his debut on May 29, 1995 versus the Seattle Mariners.
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We also factored in the number of years since each city's last title (31 for Seattle), and the ratio of each city's cumulative seasons to championships won (Atlanta, for instance, has compiled 153 MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL seasons while winning one championship, the 1995 Braves).
It is the first time LA Galaxy have won the trophy since 2002 and they now begin their play-off campaign against Seattle Sounders on Sunday.
Traditionalists point out that the Big Bird has been tied to the region ever since William Boeing built his first aircraft in his boathouse on a Seattle lake in 1916.
The driving force of a Starbucks bounce-back will have to come from resurgence in same-store domestic sales since surveys show that many European coffee drinkers remain resistant to the Seattle-based juggernaut.
Since 2005, MLS has added six new teams, and with the exception of Seattle all now play in their own arenas.
Many record companies felt blindsided by the launch of Amazon Cloud, and the Seattle-based online retail company hasn't significantly upgraded its service since it launched.
Wally Smith, 51, REI's chief executive since 1983, presides over the empire from a no-frills office complex near the Seattle-Tacoma airport.
The move into Canada was predictable since many customers from that country shop in Nordstrom stores in the Northwest, particularly in Seattle.
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Seattle could even find itself left behind in the dot.com revolution, since local companies such as Amazon.com, HomeGrocer.com and Drugstore.com have staked their all on the consumer market just when the business-to-business dot.com market looks like an even bigger profit-maker.
Since his exoneration, Banks has spent months in intensive training, attending San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks minicamps last year.
He already seen many of his squad in action since the Croatia defeat and postponed a research trip to the US, where he planned to study Seattle Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren's training techniques.
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At WaMu, the chairman of that committee is Mary Pugh, a Seattle-area investment manager whose company once did business with WaMu and who has been a director since 1999.
Wally Smith, 51, REI's chief executive officer since 1983, presides over the empire from a no- frills office complex in Kent, 15 miles south of Seattle.
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