Currently flecked with pockets of severe deprivation, the city's population, and economic health, took a major pounding when, in the 70s, the heavy industry that propped up it's prosperity fell into a major decline, before slowly bleeding out.
But for those listening for shifts, for the minor notes that rise even as the major ones pound out the familiar theme, there have been hints of a wavering certainty.
Then he suffered a major blow: 400 pounds of crab, meant as samples, were detained in a cargo area of Kennedy Airport because Mr. González had hired the wrong broker to help get it through customs.
Hurricane Dolly, a Category 2, was the last major storm to pound Texas.
"A major loss or pounding can exact a heavy toll on a group of people," Ferguson writes.
Richard Desmond's Express Newspapers is to hire 40 staff as part of a major multi-million pound investment in the Express and Star web operations.
Although Major, the 120-pound black-and-tan ball of fur that typically sleeps next to them, was the only dog in attendance, the barks, yips and growls of others served as background music during their vows.
The high temperature was just five degrees warmer than the high during the first day of the last major snowstorm to pound the city, the Blizzard of 1996, which began on Jan . 7
Finally, ARM has been a major beneficiary of weak pound (dollar revenues, pound cost base).
Here are the areas of major savings: ■ 123 pounds in the body.
