Newport
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a seaport and county in southeastern Wales, near the Severn estuary.
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a seaport and summer resort in southeastern Rhode Island: site of U.S. Navy base and Naval War College.
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a city on the Isle of Wight, in southern England.
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a city in central Kentucky, on the Ohio River, opposite Cincinnati, Ohio.
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a city and port in SE Wales, in Newport county borough on the River Usk: electronics. Pop: 116 143 (2001)
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a county borough in SE Wales, created from part of Gwent in 1996. Pop: 139 300 (2003 est). Area: 190 sq km (73 sq miles)
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a port in SE Rhode Island: founded in 1639, it became one of the richest towns of colonial America; centre of a large number of US naval establishments. Pop: 26 136 (2003 est)
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a town in S England, administrative centre of the Isle of Wight. Pop: 22 957 (2001)
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Famed for summer homes of nineteenth-century millionaires.
Center of yachting in the United States.
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Marti Prohaska, the mayor of Mountain Village and Meehan Fee, the mayor pro tem of Telluride, arrived at Horning’s Newport Beach office.
He remains confident for now because he has been remote for years and has a solid reason for wanting to work from home in Newport, R.I.:
The entire deal could be valued at around $100 billion for General Dynamics’s Electric Boat and HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding, which together lead the construction of all of the Navy’s submarines.
"We get a lot of people from Cardiff, Newport and even Bristol, especially since working from home became more popular. They come up this way for the house prices."
From BBC
“He was very hyped up and agitated,” said Chamberlain, a Newport Beach resident who spends half the year in the bustling coastal town in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
From Los Angeles Times
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