The power failure caused havoc, with whole cities grinding to a halt and transport and other services badly hit.
We now control a whole belt of cities and towns in the North of England.
Spain for example gave birth to the first modern ghost towns, whole mini-cities that were so under-populated their were incapable of supporting an infrastructure, created in part because its construction industry has been subsidised by European money for the past twenty five years.
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After all, the story of the United States is the story of entrepreneurs who settled this country seeking a better life and who through grit, hard-work, and creativity built companies, cities and whole new industries.
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The idea of westerners coming in to help run Russian cities, or even whole regions, still seems implausible.
It will be quite a challenge: Whole villages, towns, even cities have been destroyed.
The need to build pipelines from gas fields to utilities and the requirement to build networks of charging stations on highways and in major cities will require a whole new massive infrastructure effort, which in turn will need the services of construction workers, engineers and other assorted building folk.
The team eventually plan to calibrate it with data from other major cities, and possibly the whole of the US and other countries such as the UK as well.
Despite official reluctance to push a national scheme, the Manchester plan suggests that the government is still committed to road pricing, if not for the country as a whole then at least for its big cities.
The national market as a whole may still be hemorrhaging value but some cities are already sprouting the beginnings of a property value rebound.
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During the whole day's events organized in different cities local educationists, policymakers, stakeholders and community leaders gathered on this forum to affirm the need of having professionally trained and motivated teachers, they stressed the need of enacting provincial acts on the article 25-A of free and compulsory education in provinces, once Islamabad has already taken a step by passing the bill in senate.
We want the whole country to know about states like Michigan and cities like Pittsburgh and Augusta, Georgia, that encourage folks to volunteer and support our troops and veterans and their families.
As with cities, so with the nation as a whole, thinks Mr Giuliani.
On the whole, though, the rise of charter schools in American cities has brought dynamism to one of the tougher areas of reform.
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Major cities now teem with spas and nail salons, creating a whole new way to celebrate Mother's Day.
Large record stores, what's left of them, often have whole "Afrobeat" sections in world-music departments, and more major cities are home to local Afrobeat bands than ever before.
What we have seen on the streets of London and in other cities across our country is completely unacceptable and I am sure the whole House will join me in condemning it.
And the man making this all possible, literally, the single engine, the piston that's driving this whole operation of making sure that we don't walk away from our cities, we don't walk away from this recovery, we don't -- we take the chances we're taking to generate growth here, is a man who came from a big city himself.
The two cities need to be linked now in ways that will be beneficial to the whole region.
In the countryside, whole villages are disappearing at this moment as the elderly die off and the young head to the cities.
How much richer would the world's cities and museums be if today, instead of shattered fragments and armless torsos, we had the undamaged whole?
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