Sentences with phrase «among small cities»

The city also has a positive small business birth / death differential — a rarity among small cities — and sees just 11 % of its small business population fail each year.

While both Buffalo and Rochester are among the smallest cities competing for headquarters, they share benefits including a central location to cities like New York and Chicago, cheaper property and labor costs.

Both the Rochester and Buffalo regions have a little more than a million people each, which would have made them among the smallest cities applying.

Among small city metros with a population between 100,000 and 1 million, Syracuse is the most segregated in the nation.

Beaverton was ranked as the «best places to live» among the smaller cities in the nation by Money Magazine.

Not exact matches

«I believe the CEO of a small - to - medium business has three major duties: to make sure there is money in the bank; to get the right people in the right roles; and to guide the long - term vision for the company,» said Nick Gray, the founder and CEO of Museum Hack, a team - building company in New York City that counts major brands, including Facebook, among its customers.

Among the best cities for starting a small business, Los Angeles has the highest cost of living on this list but ties with Miami for the highest rate of new entrepreneurs.

Among the best cities to start a small business, Kansas City ranked lowest in startup density, tied for last place with Dallas on the rate of new entrepreneurs and came in second - to - last for opportunity share of new entrepreneurs.

The opportunity share of new entrepreneurs is the highest among the best cities for starting a small business, but the rate of new entrepreneurs is by far the lowest.

The rate of new entrepreneurs is the second - lowest among the best cities to start a small business, but it's been steadily rising over the past few years.

Among the best cities to build a small business, Kansas City has a rate of entrepreneurs and a startup density that are on the low end.

The personal finance site recently crunched through numbers from the Small Business Administration, the Census Bureau, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics among other sources to uncover the best cities with thriving communities of educated, young entrepreneurs.

Detroit also has the fourth - largest number of minority - owned small businesses among American cities, though it ranks only 23rd by population.

Singapore Airlines, the flagship air carrier Lee started in 1972, encapsulated the city - state's story of success: small, with scant resources and dwarfed by larger rivals, it aimed to be among the world's best from the outset and quickly became so.

While the business opportunity in smaller cities is large, limited Internet connectivity and reluctance among parents and students to pay for online education hamper adoption of online supplementary education platforms, it said.

St. Paul has the smallest number of establishments among the best cities to score a dream job.

The Fund is a small, nearly all - volunteer scholarship fund based in New York City, which awards yearly grants and works to foster fellowship among grant recipients.

The majority of the guests of our federal prisons come from the small minority (which is higher outside the cities, in rural Canada and among First Nations) who live in poverty.

Argentina's wine exports to Hong Kong only constitute a small amount in terms of volume and value, and was not ranked among the city's top 10 wine importers in 2016.

Major City Directors Section Meeting CEP: Making It Work in Major City Districts (3310) Key Area 3 - Administration 7/14/2015, 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Ballroom ACE Speakers: Nadine Mann, PhD, RD, Zoe Neuberger, Stacy Koppen and Susan Ehrhart, SNS The national roll - out of the new Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) has exceeded all expectations among small and mid-size school districts.

Among other things, she talked about how people in one small town, lacking a «net connection, would type out emails and give them on disk to a car owner who would drive them weekly to the nearest city (hours away) and send them to the wider world, returning later with the replies.

Top representatives from City Hall, the Mayor's Office for Immigrant Affairs, the Department of Transportation, Department of Finance, NYPD, Economic Development Corporation, Department of Education, Department of Health, Small Business Services, Department of Parks and Recreation, among others, will be available to answer Manhattan residents» questions.

The candidate also listed increased funding for city schools, tenant protection legislation, ensuring prevailing wages on subsidized housing construction and increasing assistance for small business owners among her priorities.

Officials at the big ones, like the Thruway Authority, as well as the small ones — the Albany Water Board, Schenectady County Local Development Corp., Rensselaer County Industrial Development Agency and Saratoga Springs City Center Authority are among those that come to mind — have been asked what their policies are regarding the payment of bonuses.

With candidates vying for votes ahead of New York City's September primary and November general elections, many in and around campaigns know that the state's antiquated election laws will, in part, ensure that a small percentage of potential voters will cast ballots among limited choices.

Among the City agencies represented were the Departments of City Planning, Small Business Services, Cultural Affairs, Parks & Recreation and Housing Preservation & Development.

He also predicts that the outbreak in western Japan will follow the course of the one among high schools in New York City, with mild cases predominating but with smaller numbers of severe cases among those with other health problems.

In fact, AARP named Burlington among the best small cities for retirement.

Blandings may turn out to be too citified for small - town audiences, and incomprehensible abroad; but among those millions of Americans who have tried to feather a country nest with city greenbacks, it ought to hit the jackpot.

The town is now a bedroom community for the Portland area and the epicenter of Oregon's wine country, straddling both cultural and geographic boundaries among city, suburb, small - town, and agricultural regions.

Fueled by a confluence of interests among urban parents, progressive educators, and school reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, page 33).

1994 — CEI became a founding partner in the Annenberg Challenge grant to create small public schools and networks among New York City schools.

Hitting back was a particularly popular response to bullying at Big City and Small City Schools, particularly among the boys.

They're among a small but growing number of young adults who think it's nothing less than bizarre to live in an incredibly diverse city — yet see many of their children's schools almost entirely segregated by race and class.

Meanwhile, schools in metro areas like Miami and Philadelphia and smaller cities like Urbana, Illinois, among others, have started programs in predominantly black, low - income neighborhoods to ensure students from all backgrounds have the opportunity to become bilingual.

«I see frustration and bitterness among parents growing by leaps and bounds,» said Leonie Haimson, a mother who runs Class Size Matters, an advocacy group in New York City that pushes for reduced testing and smaller class sizes.

And although there are a handful of parent - led groups working hard in the state, what strikes us about the «movement» is that it has taken hold everywhere, in bigger, county and district - wide groups, but also in small, school - centered groups like ours, and among individual parents across the city and state.

Although the politics are more raw in larger and big city school districts, even the smallest school boards can be marked by alliances among members and between members and key community stakeholders.

An array of 2009 products already is the best or among the best for fuel economy in their respective segments, including the Ford Flex (best highway at 24 mpg), the Ford Focus (unsurpassed for best highway at 35 mpg) and the Ford Escape (best - in - class for the small SUV segment with 28 highway / 20 city mpg).

Commute times here are among the shortest of any of the cities on our list and despite its smaller size, there are plenty of big - name employers to choose from, including Yates Petroleum and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.

At just over twice the national average, the full service / fast food differential in this area was in the top 10 % among all of the small cities we considered for this ranking.

Albany is second only to Des Moines in restaurant growth on this list, and 404 people per establishment is among the lowest (and best) nationally, especially for a small city.

The $ 2,615 spent per person in Charleston restaurants each year is well above the national average and good enough to put it among the top totals for small cities nationally.

This education percentage is among the highest of any small city in the U.S.

We included several smaller cities in our study and Jennings is among them, with a population of 10,200 residents.

These are pups of diminutive sizes that are quite popular among city dwellers and people with small living spaces.

Bali is a favorite among American tourists — thank in no small part to the city's reputation for being gorgeous, rejuvenating, and soulful (see also: the popularity of Eat, Pray, Love).

The $ 2,615 spent per person in Charleston restaurants each year is well above the national average and good enough to put it among the top totals for small cities nationally.

So I went to the bar, in the garden of this baroque Schloß - cum — modern art museum, one of the first in Germany to show contemporary exhibitions after the War, a venue that just a week before had been saved from selling its collection to front costs in the city's municipal budget ---- a neoliberal misinterpretation of the institution's role not uncommon among midsize cities with large deficits that house many of the small, regional museums in the Rhineland.

Among the city's smaller museums, the Neue Galerie's offerings stood out, with its ravishing Egon Schiele retrospective capping a year that featured exhibitions devoted to Austrian portraits, Degenerate Art, Vasily Kandinsky and poster design from the Vienna Secession.