1.   But the industry also had to abandon old thinking and invent a new way for handling goods, the bustling hub known as the modern distribution center.

2.   Once a bustling hub of activity, the area now resembles a ghost town.

3.   Otherwise the Royal Square, once a bustling commercial hub and later a powerful tourist attraction, was almost sepulchrally quiet.

4.   This city used to be a Palestinian success story, the bustling commercial hub of the West Bank, top-heavy with academics and professionals.

5.   Traffic jams developed in the mid-afternoon Friday as thousands of people left work early in the bustling financial hub to watch England take on Brazil in the World Cup.