1.   A group of about five American fighter planes were coming from the sea to bomb Vinh, the provincial center of Nghe An.

2.   In the past decade it has recast itself as a tidy provincial center of small businesses, malls and tourist attractions focused on a new marina.

3.   Provincial centers became in effect little Romes, retaining an autonomy of taste and style that enriched daily life throughout the empire.

4.   The city of Buta is a provincial center that used to be just a six-hour drive by ordinary car from Kisangani.

5.   These camps are spread along the river every five miles or so between Nadym and Salekhard, the town that served as the provincial center of the gulag system.

6.   Those benefits, in turn, would smooth the flow of humanitarian assistance to provincial centers.

7.   Opposition supporters retaliated by destroying state-controlled newspapers and disrupting distribution in some provincial centers.

8.   Rain hindered communications between voting stations and provincial centers, however, and no official figures were available, said chief elections officer Tobaiwa Mudede.

9.   A man was crushed to death by a collapsing wall in the provincial center of Mersin, private CNN-Turk television reported.

10.   A national strike to protest price increases took hold Wednesday, with most factories and businesses shut down in Harare and provincial centers.