The town's economy depends on oil smuggling from Iran and the annual date harvest.
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What it does have in abundance are logging companies, which drive the town's economy.
Matthew O'Callaghan, a member of the town's flood task force, said without the defence, the town's economy would have suffered.
The proposed route for the new HS2 train line, bypassing Warrington, will have a negative impact on the town's economy, councillors have claimed.
In its hey day the machine, called the Iron Duke, after the Duke of Wellington, was at the centre of the town's economy.
Eden District Council's environment portfolio holder, Councillor Mike Tonkin, said the completion of the scheme was a "real boost for the town's economy" during the Christmas period.
The key to the town's economy is diversity.
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This plant has not only been central to the economy of this town.
In 1991, a museum dedicated to the incident was opened and subsequently sparked an entire alien economy in the town.
Opening a backbench business debate on 17 January 2012, Conservative Marcus Jones said the importance of town centres to the UK economy "could not be underestimated".
On Saturday, he plans to attend a town hall meeting on the economy in California, and also is scheduled to visit a job center in Oregon that day.
It recommended the town seek a "new role in the wider Ayrshire economy, be that as a tourism destination or commuter town courtesy of its excellent rail connections".
Everyone in this town -- rather, everyone who was elected in this town is on the hook for the economy.
He has driven 10, 000 miles (16, 000km) in his, and praises the car's roominess, fuel economy and general nimbleness around town.
They have even created an alternative currency, the "Totnes Pound", which can only be spent within the town in an attempt to localize the economy and reduce reliance on imports.
The aesthetic debate aside, among the arguments in support of Verity was that it would "put Ilfracombe on the map", update the town's image and boost the local economy.
The leader of Rochdale Council, Colin Lambert, said the tram's arrival in the town was "a major boost to the local economy".
With less than a month to go until the election, it's concerns about the financial markets and the economy that dominate the airwaves at the town's radio station.
"You can't have a venture economy with only one VC firm in town, " says Gregory Johnson, a general partner at Gateway Associates, which invests nearly half of its funds in high-tech companies in and near St.
For Ffion Lloyd, Ryder Cup project director at Newport City Council, the tournament is already playing a key role in Newport's continuing redevelopment from a former industrial town to a modern city with a diversified and growing economy.
Visitors pass through miles of wheat fields before arriving in town, and agriculture has long been the mainstay of the economy.
Obama told a town hall meeting Wednesday the rising costs of health care threaten the economy and are unsustainable.
The senator from Illinois was to focus on the economy at a stop in Flint before heading to a town hall meeting in Farmington Hills.
New York's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, a liberal Republican, pointed out last week at a Senate town-hall hearing in Philadelphia that the Big Apple's economy would collapse without the half-million or so undocumented people among the city's 3m immigrants.
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Zandi's office at Moody's Economy.com is just outside the 6th District in the town of West Chester.
Bush made those comments at a town hall meeting where he fielded a number of questions on education and the economy, and also from at least one speaker who wanted to take exception to pundits and critics who say Bush doesn't have the intellectual prowess to be president.
She said the economy had already been boosted by new businesses which had recently established themselves in the town's Westgate Arcade.
Mr Cameron was responding to concerns highlighted by campaigners in a Lincolnshire town, who say they are worried about the impact migrant workers are having on the local economy.
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The town's mayor Paul Vickers said he hoped that people would pull together to help the local economy.
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At a town hall meeting in Baton Rouge this week, Economic Development Secretary Mike Olivier said Louisiana's economy will not recover unless it gets more housing.
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