company town
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No one wants Arlington to become a one-company town. — Mene Ukueberuwa, WSJ, "How Arlington Lured Amazon With Low Costs," 14 Dec. 2018 The company town of Kohler, home to the plumbing manufacturer, will welcome celebrity chefs and winemakers to a four-day event at its fancy American Club resort. — Fox News, "7 fall wine festivals that aren’t in California," 13 Aug. 2015 And in 2015, hundreds turned out at company town halls and convinced Google to roll back a ban that would have restricted publicly available nude and adult content on its Blogger service, without so much as a peep to the press. — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, "Google employee activism on diversity, Pentagon contract is shaking up Internet giant," 5 June 2018 One of the earliest examples of a company town, Arvida has been absorbed into the city of Saguenay, but its main street remains vibrant and the original architecture largely intact. — Danielle Bochove, Bloomberg.com, "Trump’s Trade War Looms Over a Canadian Town Built to Supply America," 28 June 2018 McCARTHY — Twenty years after acquiring the massive ruins of the Kennecott copper mines, the National Park Service has finally figured out a way to preserve the historic company town and tell its story — without banishing all the ghosts. — Tom Kizzia, Anchorage Daily News, "Amid the ruins of the Kennecott mine, a quiet new look at a unique slice of history," 26 June 2018 Before data mining was the preferred extractive industry of the Santa Clara Valley, mineral extraction built one of the region’s earliest variations of the company town. — Ingrid Burrington, The Atlantic, "Who Gets to Live in Silicon Valley?," 25 June 2018 For seven years, Garrett, 36, has lived in El Portal, a National Park Service company town near Yosemite’s southwest entrance. — Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, "A Rattle with Death in Yosemite," 20 June 2018 Through a typical, slightly ridiculous series of events, the pair unknowingly brings a video camera for a company town hall into a back storeroom. — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, "How 'Superstore' helped make 'will they/won't they' couples fun again," 3 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'company town.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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