Pepco, the utility that services the greater Washington DC area, has few friends among its customer base thanks to spotty reliability.

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Airlines along the storm's projected path had already shut down about 450 flights for Wednesday, most of them at Washington DC area airports.

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John Regan is a medium-size builder in the Washington DC area who has just completed a high-end condominium project in the upscale suburb of McLean, Virginia.

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The Monday morning commute was less busy than usual around the metropolitan Washington DC area as federal and state agencies allowed non-emergency workers to take leave or work from home.

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He also leaves the familiar turf of Boston for locations like Istanbul and the Washington, DC area.

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Community service is another essential element of the program, and Fellows participate in service projects throughout the year in the Washington, DC area.

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The same is true for the Washington, DC, area, where an all-but-recession-proof economy based on the federal government has already managed a return to pre-downturn output levels.

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Dr. BROCK: And so in a study of over 500 women from the Washington, DC, area, as a matter of fact, more than 50 percent of them were very happy with their, you know, overweightness because their husbands or counterpart felt that--the person in their lives felt that that's the way they liked them, so they were very satisfied with having hips and thighs, and this is a norm for us.

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The premise is the same in the comic book as the film: In the future, Mega-City One has urban-sprawled its way across the East Coast of America, covering the area from Boston to Washington DC.

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Venuetastic has financed its operation through Angel investment so far and hopes to expand from the 700 venues in its system when it launched in April 2011 to have a consistent flow of events in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, Boston, and Washington, DC by early 2012.

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The cross-country tour will begin in the Bay Area and end in New York, with stops in Phoenix, Dallas and Washington DC in between.

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