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It is a textbook example of an aerotropolis, which can be narrowly defined as a city planned around its airport or, more broadly, as a city less connected to its land-bound neighbors than to its peers thousands of miles away.
Cities of the Sky Greg Lindsay 2011
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I identified with him somehow although I was a land-bound kid.
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Unlike the land-bound festivities at the Bird's Nest stadium that featured thousands of performers moving in coordination in 2008, Asian Games organizers paid tribute to coastal Guangdong province's seafaring heritage.
Asian Games Opening Ceremony 2010 (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The robots work together to cover a large area of the water and communicate with one another and with land-bound researchers.
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Tom Wolfe, in his fantastic profile of Junior Johnson, wrote that the automobile extricated “millions of good old boys, and girls” from “what was still pretty much a land-bound form of social organization.”
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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Unlike the land-bound festivities at the Bird's Nest stadium that featured thousands of performers moving in coordination in 2008, Asian Games organizers paid tribute to coastal Guangdong province's seafaring heritage.
Asian Games Opening Ceremony 2010 (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The ocean is the great dividing line, separating the security-minded land-bound from those whose imaginations reach beyond the far horizon.
Three new books about surviving treacherous seas Ken Ringle 2010
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PARIS — The Icelandic volcano that has kept much of Europe land-bound is far from finished spitting out its grit, and offered up new mini-eruptions Saturday that raise concerns about longer-term damage to world air travel and trade.
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PARIS — The Icelandic volcano that has kept much of Europe land-bound is far from finished spitting out its grit, and offered up new mini-eruptions Saturday that raise concerns about longer-term damage to world air travel and trade.
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Tom Wolfe, in his fantastic profile of Junior Johnson, wrote that the automobile extricated “millions of good old boys, and girls” from “what was still pretty much a land-bound form of social organization.”
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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