The league began with four teams of 15, playing in medium-size cities in the industrial Midwest.

The area, which includes the medium-size city of Arlington, has 693,000 employed workers.

One indication is the size of the 20,000-seat stadium, which seems more appropriate to a medium-size city than to a town of 30,000.

The growth has created adjustment problems across the region, particularly in small- and medium-size cities that have little experience with foreign cultures.

"We were a medium-size city, but we made our own headlines."

You couldn't have that many rogue master vampires running around one medium-size city.

A monthly magazine with a circulation of about 230,000, Hemmings looks like the phone book for a medium-size city.

It is not surprising, medical researchers say, that medium-size cities and suburban areas produce the best emergency response times.

So how did a prosecutor in a medium-size city end up pursuing and winning two of the country's largest asbestos cases?

The student from a rural community could spend a few weeks at a college in a medium-size city before entering the large urban university.