For me, what is noteworthy about this story is that these governmental entities have the feel of public-private partnerships, effectively mixing the strategic planning of entrepreneurial government agencies with aggressive economic development and a healthy orientation toward profit and efficiency.

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What makes Powder Mountain especially noteworthy is that in addition to its regular lift network, it offers two very unique options.

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But what might mark 2013 as especially noteworthy is that is could be the very first time when Puerto Rican citizens themselves are the heroes of their own story.

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But priests ordinarily only wrote detailed descriptions of diseases when what they saw was noteworthy, and it is intriguing that the description of the doctor's illness in the parish book is one of the longest of the year.

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What's most disconcerting about the report is that it seems more interested in disrupting or dismissing what Amazon is doing (particularly noteworthy as the company is in the midst of its biggest season for Kindle sales ever).

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What's most noteworthy about Bush's story is that while his image or persona struck most Americans one way, the judgment that we all kept hearing was very different.

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What made the popular success of "All in the Timing" so noteworthy is that Mr. Ives's brand of humor is anything but simple.

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What seems to be overlooked by investors is the fact that stocks in emerging Europe have also seen noteworthy results.

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