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 Seattle
is
one of the most magnificent cities
in the western of the United States of America. Seattle’s
spectacular environs of mountains, lakes, forest and shorelines make it a
city that people choose to live in for geographic characteristics.
It is considered the best places to live in the United States.
Economically,
it has diversified industries such as agriculture, aircraft,
high
tech, medical research, tourism and particularly trade with Pacific Rim
countries. Virtually,
Seattle provides a highly favorable investment climate with opportunity
for development and continued growth.
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Seattle
was considered America’s most
Livable City in 1993.
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Seattle
was ranked No.2 among major U.S.
cities as the best place to raise kids 1994
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A
nationwide poll of top executives ranked Seattle No.2 among major U.S
cities as a place to locate a desirable business.
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Seattle
was rated tops again in
1996 from Fortune magazine.
“ An affordable life. A safe life. A profitable life. May be even
a wonderful life” It was rated the
best cities for work and family.
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Post
Office Service
in Seattle was rated among the top
in U .S. A. as the most efficient
city of handling mails promptly in 1997.
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Washington
State as among the ten fastest
growing states in the nation since 1988 with diversified
industries such as agriculture, aircraft, high tech, medical research,
tourism and particularly trade with Pacific Rim countries.
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Boeing
is still the largest commercial
airplane manufacturing company in the world now. According to the
Seattle Post Intelligence (P. I) on 5/26/99 the Boeing Co. closed to a
$4 billion order for 747 and 777 jetliners from China Airlines,
marking the Seattle-based aircraft maker’s biggest Asian order since
that region’s economic crisis began in 1998.
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Washington
is the leading timber industry
in the nation. Weyerhaeuser
Company is one of the fortune 500 largest companies in U.S.A.
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Washington
has the largest Software Company
in the world, Microsoft Company, which employ more than 30,000 around the
world.
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Seattle
was considered third on the nation’s high tech map
with hundreds of computer hardware/software telecommunications, biomedical
and biotechnology companies based in the Seattle and King county areas.
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Seattle
was rated tops again in
1996 from Fortune magazine “ An
affordable life. A safe life.
A profitable life. May be even a wonderful life” It was rated the best
cities for work and family.
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McClaw
Cellular Communication, Inc
(wireless phone) was the first wireless phone in the world.
On Nov 1997, ATT Company acquired McClaw.
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Washington
is the U.S ‘s leading producer
of hops (75 percent of the total crops), apples
(46 percent), sweet cherries, processing carrots and red raspberries.
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Starbucks
Coffee
is one of largest coffee shop and
coffee product in the world. It
has 2079 stores around the world including 100 shops outside the U.S.
in 1997. But in 2004, It has 5,945 stores in the United States and
2,392 more overseas and in Canada.
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Amazon.com
(base in Seattle)is the
largest and a leader in the Internet industry in the world. Originally, it
just sells books, now only expanding to video, music, auctions and other
business.
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Seattle
and the Washington areas is viewed as a fertile field by California
companies
because the higher labor and real estate costs in California have driven a
lot of industries and companies to diversity out the state.
In addition, California
faces the serious problems in transportation, education, overcrowding and
an aging inadequate infrastructure.
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Seattle
has the closest major airport and
seaport in the continental United State to Asia.
The distance from Tokyo to Seattle is 4,781 miles, compared
with 5,135 miles between Tokyo and San Francisco and 5,433 miles between
Tokyo and Los Angeles.
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Seattle
‘s strategic location and excellent multi-code transportation network
make it a major center foe
international commerce, international transshipment and investment.
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Past
activities or attractions
in Seattle and other areas in Washington include:
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1962-
Seattle was the host of the World
Fair- Seattle Center.
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1974-
Spokane, Washington was the host
of the World Fair.
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1984
& 1998- Seattle Kingdoms Stadium-
NCAA Final Four Basketball Championship Game (National Colleges
Athletic Association). In
1988, during a one week tournament, it brought Seattle about $50 million
in business.
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1990-
Seattle was the host of Goodwill
Games sponsored by a Cable TV News Network Company (CNN).
It brought about 2,000 athletics from around the world to compete.
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1992-
Regional NCAA Tournament in
Seattle
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1993-
APEC meeting was held in
Seattle, all APEC leaders, such as President
Clinton (President of U.S A.) and Chairman
Jiang
Zeman,
(Chairman of Peoples’ Republic of China) got together discussing
economics and politics issue.
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1995-
NCAA Final Basketball
Championship.
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Washington
has 29 four-year colleges and university, 27 two-year college and five
vocational-technical institutes.
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The
University of Washington has
been among the top five
institutions in the U.S in receipt of federal grant and contract since
1968, and is among the top ten
institutions with private industry funding since 1988.
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