In 1986, American statesman Averell Harriman died in Yorktown Heights, New York, at age 94.
Now it is smart enough to have spent much of this autumn in Yorktown Heights, N.
Finally in 1781 with the aid of French allies--he forced the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.
The final battle at Yorktown came about despite Washington's fixation with attacking New York.
The most problematic part of the Yorktown story is that a government entity is getting involved in the dispute.
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Camparano, the Yorktown youth sports president and council candidate, was against the resolution calling for no games on Yom Kippur.
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George Washington met here in 1781 with the Comte de Rochambeau of the French expeditionary army, to plot successfully against the British at Yorktown.
The issue arose after 25 to 30 baseball, softball and football games were scheduled by Yorktown Athletic Club for Oct. 8, the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
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Kerry underscored his military credentials -- he served in the Navy during the Vietnam War -- by delivering his speech in front of the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown.
He helped defeat the British at Yorktown, winning American Independence.
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Because the toy retailer is a tenant at the Yorktown mall, it was able to provide KKR with insight into the area's household income and consumer-purchasing habits, he said.
At IBM's research lab in Yorktown Heights, New York, computer scientist Baruch Schieber is using linear programming to help an IBM client schedule hours for 250 workers at a call center.
The first skirmishes in America's war of independence were at Concord and Lexington in 1775 and the decisive battle was fought at Yorktown in 1781, six years later (though the articles of peace were not signed until 1783).
For example, before buying the suburban Chicago retail property, named the Yorktown Center, Mr. Rosenberg said his team spoke with executives at more than 100 companies, including Toys 'R' Us, which KKR acquired in 2005 as part of a consortium.
If the light were not infrared but were instead in the visible spectrum, there was enough of it that the naked eye could have seen a glow, according to Phaedon Avouris , manager of nanometer scale science and technology at IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) Research Laboratories in Yorktown Heights, N.
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