It always was, and mostly still is, a hardscrabble place, the South Puget Sound.
Mr Brooks had been a self-made man, raised on a hardscrabble tobacco farm in South Carolina.
They include his sports pictures, portraits and socially conscious cityscapes (many showing New York's hardscrabble tenement life).
Perhaps most importantly, African Services provides her a community center that is a refuge from the sometimes-hardscrabble immigrant life.
Mack Leighty, the man behind the Cheese, has documented his hardscrabble life on some of the most revealing terms imaginable.
This above-average Bronson vehicle, from 1974, features a hardscrabble script by Elmore Leonard and the no-nonsense direction of Richard Fleischer.
The grandson of a Dutch immigrant who settled in hardscrabble West Texas, Koch can sound like a Calvinist minister at times.
Within the working ranks of a hardscrabble region, they mock such claims.
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He's the insider-outsider who represents the synthesis of the much admired elegant skill-based Spanish soccer culture and the hardscrabble, passionate English lower-league ethos.
Coupled with his relatively hardscrabble upbringing, his competitive nature makes him want to have more than the next guy, indie roots be damned.
He has had a privileged upbringing, not the kind of hardscrabble early life that forged his father's mettle before he grew to become South Korea's greatest industrialist.
He rose from hardscrabble roots to realize the American dream.
The millions of Southerners from the hill country and the border states who couldn't afford slave labor or had no need for it on their hardscrabble farms were unrepresented.
She also spent some time in Johnstown, Pennsylvania - it's a hardscrabble community in the western part of the state, yesterday - has also been going after female voters in Pennsylvania.
He was as outspoken as ever, and often ended these meals by regaling friends and neighbors with tall tales about his supposedly hardscrabble childhood, according to artists Diana Thater and T.
His hardscrabble life, poverty in South Dakota and fighting in World War II prepared him for any battles in a competitive arena, and he loved to compete and he loved to win.
At the recent groundbreaking for a test track in the hardscrabble Antelope Valley of the Mojave Desert, Chairman Chung and several other executives, including O'Neill, held shovels over a trough of dirt for photographers.
It was a hardscrabble oil boom in Jingbian.
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No doubt he would have pined less during the late 20th Century, when many parts of the region became something of a hardscrabble industrial centre -- but as local manufacturing faded in the 1970s, rural charm re-emerged.
Dell confirmed Thursday that the struggling PC giant--which rose to the top in the hardscrabble computer retail business by hawking its wares directly to its customers--will start selling desktop computers through 3, 000 Wal-Mart outlets starting June 10.
Like most parents from his hardscrabble background, he was simply happy that his son was getting a college education, as if a college education, of whatever kind, in whatever major, would magically do the kid some good.
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His deep sense of empathy, borne out of a hardscrabble life strikingly present in a painting like "Puberty, " which depicts a young girl sitting naked and forlorn on a bed enabled him to physically capture emotions like anguish, terror and sadness.
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In short, daily life in a hardscrabble farming village in Szechuan province is a world away from the Shanghai Nanjing Road ritzy shopping street or even an old, walled neighborhood in Harbin, a crossroad of many cultures in northeastern China.
Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) confirmed Thursday that the struggling PC giant--which rose to the top in the hardscrabble computer retail business by hawking its wares directly to its customers--will start selling desktop computers through 3, 000 Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ) outlets starting June 10.
Where once a very clever, hard working Seth McFarlane (creator of Family Guy) had to hardscrabble with networks to achieve distribution, and live in fear of a single person controlling his destiny, in the future these creative people will be able to own their content and capture the value directly as they build a direct audience.
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