COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
front and center
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Prayer in schools has become a front-and-center issue.
outreach program/service/center etc
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outreach centers for drug addicts
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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financial
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Like stocks, they are traded daily in New York and in other financial centers .
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Long-term financial planning centers on planning for the future growth of the company and devising plans to finance this growth.
main
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The main detention center was designed to hold 150 people, but sometimes houses 600.
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His family home in Aba was the main distributing center and office for three major newspapers in his country.
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There are five main sales centers , including one in Los Angeles, which hold auctions every nine weeks.
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The main center of the revolutionary movement thereupon shifted for the time being to the colonial countries.
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His monthly department head meetings are being held outside the main administration center .
major
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Webb quickly became an important retailer in a city that was then a major center for pop music.
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Like Manhattan, Bangalore is also a major national center for medical research.
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Even modest elevations of sea level therefore can threaten many major population centers .
medical
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For comparison, we utilized patients from clinics at a Midwestern inner city medical center .
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The blood sample, if drawn outside Stanford, can be transported to the Palo Alto-based medical center by courier.
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Patients would probably have to be moved, either to other military medical centers or to private health-care facilities.
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Eighteen medical centers will enroll patients in the trial.
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Nonpatient populations were then polled and interviewed through the courtesy of medical centers and universities throughout the country.
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She is expected to move from critical care to a private room at Hackensack University Medical center .
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HMOs and modern medical centers are powerful institutions with an army of in-house lawyers, risk managers and numerous administrators.
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University officials describe the merger as an economic lifeline for the prestigious but financially ailing medical center .
new
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Millions of people either moved there or were born in new industrial centers where factories and mills were located.
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They will, however, be getting a new center , and that is a good start, he believes.
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In addition to a small cafeteria at the new center , the main Visitors' Center has many meal choices.
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Product management is developing a standardized suite of managed services that will be offered in the new data centers .
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She is conducting a survey to see what new activities the center should offer.
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A new high-altitude touring center has opened at Killington in Vermont.
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City officials had wanted to wait until moving into the new dispatch center to buy a new state-of-the-art computer.
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The foundation funded a dozen new career centers in high schools, where students could come for career guidance and counseling.
senior
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She spent time at a day care center , a senior center, a food distribution place.
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Seniors can make appointments to visit the mobile unit by calling their local senior center .
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The program likely is to shutter 34 senior centers , where elderly people drop in and get a noon meal.
urban
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Blacks in large numbers started leaving the South for northern urban centers in the 1920s.
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Westerners are often tempted to write off the great urban centers of the developing world as almost beyond hope.
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It was to its urban centers that those interested in a better education and a broader range of opportunities were drawn.
■ NOUN
care
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She spent time at a day care center , a senior center, a food distribution place.
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Electric Co. has had its own child care center at its Beale Street headquarters since 1992.
city
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Aiming back toward the city center , we forded ankle-deep streams that had once been boulevards.
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It is about a 25-minute walk from the city center .
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Nor was it for Father Vic, who lived in the rectory maintained by his order in the city center .
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But the city center idea collapsed and so did Rancho Vistoso's plans.
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The city center moved north with the development of banks and other businesses.
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Tucson has tried scheme after scheme to lure crowds to the city center .
community
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Prosecutors originally were seeking a 10-month term, with five months to be served in a community center .
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Why does this city need a gay community center ?
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No house of worship nor community center should be bereft of personnel or equipment for such education.
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The Archdiocese of San Francisco also plans to construct a church, a new school and community center at the site.
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Inside a community center , the new council members sat through three hours of speeches.
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Perhaps the most promising example of this kind of institution is the gay community center .
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Many members consider it more a community center than a health club.
convention
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Before forming the task force, Golding said the planned $ 213 million convention center expansion will not be included.
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Loans would be floated for construction of the convention center and the new county buildings.
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Like Anderson, they wanted those within the convention center to hear them.
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The water quality board cited the port in 1995 for excessive contaminants in the convention center operation.
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He also made a deal with the Port District that permitted construction of the convention center .
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The city will assume responsibility for convention center permit issues when bonds are issued to finance expansion of the facility.
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The Port District built the convention center in 1989, but it is managed by the city.
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Held in a sprawling Phoenix convention center , the lavish party is big enough to accommodate four or five bands simultaneously.
detention
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Police take violators to a special detention center and telephone their homes.
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Women are more likely to end up in county jails because INSrun detention centers sometimes can not handle females.
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The main detention center was designed to hold 150 people, but sometimes houses 600.
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He was in and out of juvenile detention centers for four years on weapons and drug charges and other violations.
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High Commissioner for Refugees visit the detention center twice a week to assess those requests.
distribution
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The Norwalk residence served as a distribution center , authorities said.
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But no: the firm decided instead to eliminate overtime pay for workers at its packaging and distribution center .
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Hiatt had come to oppose Shames and his plan to build a $ 30 million high-tech distribution center in Louisville, Ky.
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Management for the operation will be based at the Wal-Mart distribution center , Norden said.
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This is the fourth start-up of a Wal-Mart distribution center for Schneider in the past three years.
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We have a big distribution center in Morgan Hill.
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After the closing of its distribution centers led to organizational disaster, the firm did its best to minimize these consequences.
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The year following the elimination of the distribution centers was, by employee consensus, the worst the company had ever endured.
recreation
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Over in a corner, at the entrance to the recreation center , is a small grove of banana and ficus trees.
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The recreation center is the first phase of the one-third-acre project.
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At age 10, she began tagging along when her brothers would head out to the neighborhood playgrounds and recreation centers .
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In 1989, the Golden Hill recreation center needed a new roof and repainting.
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The team is crammed into a small, windowless conference room at the University of Southern California student recreation center .
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Their forces shut dozens of schools, mosques and recreation centers in poor neighborhoods throughout the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
rehabilitation
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After the war, the site became a physical rehabilitation center and research facility.
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We need only to cite schools and colleges, hospitals, drug rehabilitation centers , libraries and the like.
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They came directly from hospitals or drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers and, in a few cases, from prison.
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A few years earlier, the man had sought treatment at the drug rehabilitation center where Ruiz volunteers.
research
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These are the findings in a study just issued by the Rand research center in Santa Monica.
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Both universities have medical schools, hospitals, clinics and research centers of worldwide repute.
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He had a hospital and research center in mind.
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An informal group of exchange scientists at the North Carolina research center had already attached their annotations.
service
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The duties of employment interviewers in job service centers differ somewhat because applicants may lack marketable skills.
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The neighborhood service centers assisted commissioners in assessing conditions and priorities in their respective subareas and in formulating appropriate proposals.
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Employment opportunities should be better in private placement firms than in State job service centers .
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The neighborhood service centers , however, survived the council onslaught.
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In addition, the store is now an official service center for the full line of Hewlett Packard computer goods.
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The human service center recently moved from leased space into a new, county-owned building in downtown Grand Forks.
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Acceptable use policies of non-ISPs are published and are usually easily available in the network information service centers of the target network.
treatment
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The publication also is distributed to youth clubs, clinics, school libraries, drug treatment centers and churches across the country.
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Flores has been commuting to Santa Anita from a substance-abuse treatment center .
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The spas are first and foremost medical treatment centers , and most guests come with a recommendation from a doctor.
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But they did not consider his stay in the day treatment center successful.
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Diagnostic and then treatment centers would be set up in those states where the disease was endemic.
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To survive, many treatment centers have expanded their outpatient offerings.
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During the 1970s and 1980s, treatment centers cropped up all over the nation.
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All were treated at private treatment centers which required either insurance coverage or self-payment for the treatment.
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become
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She overwhelms Willie and becomes the center of his life.
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The typical Well Fargo lobby could become a virtual center of family life.
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I had hoped that writing would become the center of my life.
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Sorrento Valley has become Telecom Valley, which is becoming a world center for the development of wireless mobile phones.
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Bangalore became a software center very recently, and so far most of what is done there is relatively unsophisticated.
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Now they became centers of hostility.
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He and not Persephone became the center of the belief in immortality.
build
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A mission project of the Methodist Church is building a technology center so local businesses can travel the information superhighway.
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The college was not required to have city or county building officials inspect the center .
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The Port District built the convention center in 1989, but it is managed by the city.
move
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They belonged to the dream at the edges too; but now they were moving to the center .
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As decision-making power moves away from the center , the grip of the home office loosens.
run
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Scheduling time off takes some doing; he owns a construction company, and she runs an equestrian center .
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The city never intended to run the center permanently.
shop
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At the shopping center , the ubiquitous closed-circuit camera may soon be smart enough to seek him out personally.
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The roadway also would be widened from two to four lanes from the shopping center to the Menlo Park border.
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It even has its own Metro subway stop and shopping center .
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He was on his way to a shopping center in Jeff Parish where a model fallout shelter was on display.
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This is a mom-and-pop shop , tucked away in the Vons supermarket shopping center in University City.
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The mobile museum visits schools, retirement homes, shopping centers and other venues.
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James, a shopping center , is at the east end of Princes Street.
stand
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He did not invite Sandoz to sit but rather left him standing in the center of the room.
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Today, standing in the center of town, only oak and juniper remain.
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In it the minister and I are standing in the center of the stairs, surrounded by missionaries.
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Two saddles in progress stand in the center of his overcrowded workshop.
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This doorway did not stand in the center of the wall, which seems unusual.
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An unabashed king-size bed made up with a flowered bedspread stands in the dead center of the room.
train
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BMost students at the training center , having stared death in the face, undertake vast career shifts.
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They also are trying to make apprentices more productive by reducing the time they spend in expensive training centers .
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The partnership also will form a training center for engine localization and development.
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The island is a training center for agents.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a flower with yellow petals and a purple center
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a huge shopping center
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a major banking center
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a new $3 million center for the elderly
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His goal is to turn Stanford into a center for environmental policy.
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the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center