In America, for-profit universities such as Phoenix have already made inroads into the higher-education business.
These initiatives, as they gain ground, should put inferior sellers of knowledge, such as Phoenix, out of business, Moglen says.
Stan Humphries, chief economist at Zillow, a real estate data provider, said that the increase in the Case-Shiller index has been skewed higher by cities such as Phoenix and San Francisco.
So Golisano signed players who could flourish with that style of play, such as former Phoenix Coyotes captain Teppo Numminen, Chris Drury (Colorado Avalanche) and Kotalik (drafted from the Czech Republic).
And for-profit companies such as the University of Phoenix are stripping out costs by concentrating on a handful of popular courses as well as making full use of the internet.
It is not, however, the for-profit colleges such as the University of Phoenix that have worried us for years, nibbling around the edges at our enrollments and threatening our monopoly.
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Universities such as the University of Phoenix, DeVry University, and Capella University have been tightly integrated, proprietary, and highly successful as the early leaders in the field of online learning.
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It is very encouraging to see growth in places such as Las Vegas and Atlanta, as well as Phoenix, as they have recently been slow growth areas of the country.
Southwest went after routes such as Houston to Kansas City or Nashville to Phoenix.
It is fresh in the mind of the home buyer that some communities such as Las Vegas, Atlanta, Phoenix and much of Florida saw prices drop more than in half.
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Alan Hald, another Tempe-based entrepreneur and co-chairman of the Arizona Partnership for the New Economy, points out that Phoenix lacks the venture capital that brings the whirr to other high-tech hubs, such as Austin, Los Angeles and New York.
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