St. Louis

American  

[seynt loo-is] / ˌseɪnt ˈlu ɪs /

noun

1. a port in E Missouri, on the Mississippi.

2. a river in NE Minnesota, flowing generally S to Lake Superior at Duluth. 160 miles (257 km) long.

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St. Louis Cultural  

1. The largest city in Missouri.

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Known as the “Gateway to the West” because of its importance as a staging area for wagon trains in the nineteenth century. The Gateway Arch, made of steel and several hundred feet high, stands in St. Louis in commemoration of this fact.

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She is a professor of medicine and public health and co director of the Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

From Science Daily

In St. Louis, the Board of Election Commissioners didn’t alter the eligibility of anyone on its flagged voter list after being advised not to by its attorney.

From Salon

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new way to estimate when a person is likely to start showing symptoms of Alzheimer's disease using just one blood test.

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Capital Economics estimates that tariffs are boosting core inflation—which excludes energy and food costs—by about 0.5 percentage points, consistent with recent estimates from the St. Louis Fed.

From Barron's

That is the largest imbalance on record going back to at least 2006, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

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