The BBC's Nick Davis in Kingston said said Duncans was seen as a "sleepy town and a backwater" where "crime is pretty much unheard of".
Mr Mehdorn is spurred by the example of Deutsche Post, whose McKinsey-bred management has turned it from a sleepy sorting office into a global logistics firm.
Eventually we stop to take pictures in a sleepy village and immediately cause a bit of a stir.
Before Walt was through, he almost single-handedly turned banking from the equivalent of a small, sleepy town into a hyper-energetic, New York-like metropolis.
Before Walt was through, however, he had almost singlehandedly turned banking from the equivalent of a small, sleepy town into a hyperenergetic New York-like metropolis.
Not long ago, Taganga was a sleepy fishing village -- a seaside retreat where in-the-know travellers could to tie up a hammock for a few days of tranquillity.
No longer a sleepy fishing village, not yet a bustling metropolis, the city itself is on the brink of transformation.
Eleven firms, most of them recently constituted, now scrap for a toe-hold in a market that two sleepy insurers contested a couple of years ago.
Mail-Well veered from envelopes, a sleepy business growing 2.5% a year, into the slightly less soporific commercial printing market, growing at 6%.
Ta Moan turned out to be a sleepy site, about the size of a football field, with brown rock remains of walls that outlined one central building with some still visible decorated doorways and corridors, and half a dozen subsidiary structures.
Can Carlos Ghosn really transform Renault, a sleepy maker of modest European cars, into a premium luxury brand?
The residents of Hannover are abuzz and enjoying the international limelight in a sleepy industrial city best known in Germany as a train connection hub and convention destination.
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Today, a herd of takins lives within a refuge at the edge of Thimpu, the sleepy capital of a country the size of Switzerland with a total population of just 700, 000.
My mobile sent us to a sleepy border station that seemed to have been built where there was once a stop sign on a two lane country road.
Tucked away in a sleepy one-story office complex in Mountain View, California, Trevor Blackwell is trying to get a robot to walk.
Sleepiness: Elderly people who frequently doze off during routine daily activities, such as reading or watching TV, have a greater chance of suffering a stroke than less sleepy individuals, according to a study in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
If so, he has got off to a flying start, having transformed the sleepy industry federation into a canny campaigner for German competitiveness.
From the 1950s onwards, the collective turned a once sleepy, small town of 6, 000 into a city with massive high-rise buildings and a population of exactly 67, 881 in 1989.
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This proposal has caused a rift among people in what is normally a sleepy beach city.
After decades as a sleepy, debt-free company, Central under him is suddenly on the move.
There is a sleepy old enterprise software market for HR systems which is on fire.
It was Sheikh Mansour's money that turned a sleepy, underperforming club into champions elect.
Instead of a sleepy flight heading west into the dark of night, the airplane was soon buzzing.
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Coloane Village still has a sleepy feel, while the coast leads on to Hac Sa Beach and Cheoc Van Bay.
Witnesses described the destruction that started in the air above Ephratah, a sleepy town of about 700 people.
First, Northridge was a sleepy, third-tier commuter school with nothing like the pressure-cooker politics of its elite neighbor.
The lessons of a sleepy Dutch spirits market were inapplicable in, say, the cut-throat world of frozen yogurt.
It's an ad that would otherwise only be seen by voters in a sleepy district in upstate New York.
Yet, instead of jumping into the fray, they catch the ferry to Algiers, a sleepy neighbourhood across the Mississippi.
For many years, it was a sleepy backwater devoted to keeping incumbents safe.
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