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• n  the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes
• n  a center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve
  the playground is the hub of parental supervision
  the airport is the economic hub of the area

• A severe thunderstorm hits a hub airport like Dallas-Fort Worth, grounding all of the planes there for two hours.
• A humming social network, community sing-along, instant-messaging hub, mobile-launched pub-crawls and numbers-crunching by committee.
• But today, thanks largely to abundant government funding, the city-state has become a regional hub for bioscience research, with a speciality in stem cells.

News & Articles

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• Sports Hub’s 2013 Boston Bruins Playoff Montages
  A collection of all the great Boston Bruins montages 98.5 The Sports Hub has put together during the 2013 playoff run!
  June 11, 2013 - CBS Boston
• Ceres Global Ag breaks ground on $90 million Commodity Logistics Hub in Northgate Saskatchewan
  Ceres Global Ag breaks ground on $90 million Commodity Logistics Hub in Northgate Saskatchewan
  June 11, 2013 - CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance
• Hizbullah leads assault, captures key rebel hub at Qusair, Syria
  NICOSIA — Hizbullah led a special forces operation that captured a Sunni rebel hub after 17 days of heavy fighting. Hizbullah sources said about 1,200 special forces troops led the attack on the rebel-held town of Qusair in May and early June of 2013. They said the battle marked the most intense campaign of the Iranian-sponsored proxy in the more than two-year civil war in Syria.
  June 11, 2013 - World Tribune

Quotes

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• Ayub Khan in Common Dreams (press release)
  The locality has been a hub of militants. Locals set up a militia and expelled the militants from this area. This attack seems to be a reaction to their expulsion,Ayub Khan, the local police chief, told reporters.
• Chris Bowen in BusinessWeek
  If Australia seriously wants to be considered as a financial center, if we seriously want to be regarded as a global financial services hub, then the days of having a monopoly in our capital and financial markets need to come to an end,Bowen...
• Kevin Rudd in The Canberra Times
  The Government recognises the enormous export potential of the financial services industry, and is committed to developing policies to establish Australia as a regional financial services hub,Mr Rudd said.