Sentences with phrase «highest capital city»

At 4000 meter altitude it is the highest capital city in the world, well de-facto, because the legal capital is Sucre with only 200,000 inhabitants.

Spot condors at Colca Canyon, trek the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, experience local life at a homestay on Lake Titicaca, explore the world's highest capital city

La Paz is the highest Capital City in the world and is almost like a time warp of Latin American and indigenous cultures, with 1950s public buses, art deco buildings and even some historic architecture designed by Gustave Eiffel, the engineer behind the Eiffel Tower!

Experience the Amazon rainforest at first - hand in a jungle lodge, check out the surf in northern Peru and bask on its relaxed beaches, follow the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, stay overnight with a local family on Lake Titicaca, and lose your breath exploring the world's highest capital city!

The Republic of Bolivia, is a mountainous landlocked country that boasts the highest capital city in the world at 4 km above sea level.

La Paz, the capital city of Bolivia, is one of the highest capital cities in the world.

Not exact matches

The UK capital hopes to lure talent with its East London «Silicon Roundabout,» (OK, a «roundabout» sounds a bit dinky compared to a whole «valley,» but the area boasts a new Google - sponsored space for start - ups as well as 300 innovative companies) as well as measures to boost the city's start - up scene, including # 75 million in funding for high - tech small and medium businesses from the government's new Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth and the Digital London summit showcasing local tech talent that's due to be held March 13 to 14.

Elle Kaplan is the founder and CEO of LexION Capital, a fiduciary wealth management firm in New York City serving high - net - worth individuals.

With its relatively low cost of living and high quality of life, Colorado's capital city is fast becoming a small business hub.

As a result of these moves, the city enjoyed the highest job growth in the $ 20 - billion global mobile app industry, and it was the only region in the U.S. to have an increase in tech venture - capital funding.

When Finance Minister Bill Morneau announced the latest changes to CMHC mortgage insurance last December, he also proposed forcing banks to hold more capital against mortgages in cities where property prices are high relative to borrowers» incomes — like Toronto and Vancouver.

At Wolfprint 3D's white egg - shaped pod in a suburban shopping mall in Estonia's capital city Tallinn, six cameras and a touch screen allow people to create a high - resolution 3D face and enter the increasingly personalized world of virtual reality.

The mile - high city is well - positioned, not only as Colorado's capital, but because of its exposure to the tech industry.

While there's still plenty going on in this area in terms of startups and venture capital investment, the city may have seen a drop because of a relatively low high - growth company density of 94.4 (out of 100,000).

As a result, over the past decade global luxury brands started expanding into the capitals of oil - rich countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the U.A.E., giving women access to shopping on par with the biggest European cities (Dubai is home to the world's largest shopping mall) and higher consumer expectations.

Elle Kaplan is the Founder and CEO of LexION Capital, a fiduciary wealth management firm in New York City serving high - net - worth individuals.

It's a first for Boulder, Colorado, and the city must be on a Rocky Mountain high after beating out state capital Denver and Colorado Springs for a spot in Thumbtack's top 10.

(Its capital city of Caracas recently overtook San Pedro Sula, Honduras, for having the world's highest homicide rate.)

Their industry relationships provide additional support and strategic guidance to ensure City Capital delivers the highest level of advisory services to clients.

1) Diversify into heartland / flyover states and away from coastal city real estate 2) Conviction is HIGHER now that the new tax plan has passed with the $ 10K SALT cap and $ 750K mortgage cap 3) Invest in the fund with 12 — 16 deals, b / c they are picking the best deals on their platform and have a high incentive not to mess things up if they want to raise new funds 4) Learn from the investments of the fund and eventually invest in specific deals w / real capital (1 - 2 years away)

New York City has twice the number of corporations than other metropolitan areas in the US and the third - highest density of venture capital after San Francisco and Boston.

The Atlantic last year found that the U.S. is home to the top six metros and 12 of the top 20 cities with the highest levels of venture capital investment in the world.

In Montpelier, the state capital and largest city in the county, rates are among the highest in the state.

Over in the capital, Carson City, prices were higher with a median list price of $ 319,450 and a median home value of $ 283,800.

According to the ABS measure, prices rose, on average, by 5 per cent in the June quarter to be 18 per cent higher over the year, with strong gains being recorded in all major capital cities (Graph 32).

«HQ2» would be an equal to Amazon's massive Seattle campus and involve a five - billion - dollar capital investment for the chosen city, and «create,» in the parlance of the day, 50,000 high - paying jobs in the area.

Boston, after all, is known as the Athens of America, not the Corinth of America: This city, with good reason, has been called the academic capital of the nation — and, given the massive accumulation of institutions of higher learning here, it may well be called the academic capital of the world.

Thus he gave to the Hebrews the city which was to become not only their political capital, but idealized, the very center for the rule of God himself — not finally, or always, on the Palestinian hills, but high and lifted up in the heavens — «Zion, city of our God.»

Petrol prices in regional locations are generally higher than those in the capital cities.

The ACCC considers that the acquisition would be likely to «substantially lessen competition in the retail supply of fuel», noting that «BP prices are significantly higher on average than Woolworths prices in the major capital cities».

The capital city Seoul now has the highest concentration of pure Kona coffee shops world wide, with more than 10,000 cafes.

She is always heading off somewhere: striking out on British Army or scientific expeditions to remote portions of the Belizean jungles; roaring up the Western Highway to Belmopan, the capital city, where her opinions are solicited with frequency by government ministers (she is now an official — albeit unpaid — land and resources adviser); or careering into Belize City, the country's population center, for a high - society cocktail pacity, where her opinions are solicited with frequency by government ministers (she is now an official — albeit unpaid — land and resources adviser); or careering into Belize City, the country's population center, for a high - society cocktail paCity, the country's population center, for a high - society cocktail party.

The school was famous in 1995 when a movie called «Dangerous Minds» featuring actress Michelle Pfeiffer was based on a true story about Carlmont HS during a time when East Palo Alto was the murder capital city in the nation and there were 4 regions that segregated each students to attend (4) public high schools in the Sequoia District: Menlo - Atherton, Woodside, Sequoia and Carlmont.

The beach plan will be high on the list of $ 60 million in potential capital improvement projects city officials will debate during budget hearings next month.

In The State We're In, Hutton argued that the UK's competitiveness in manufacturing had been undermined historically by the short - termism of the City, making for an excessively high cost of capital and consequent underinvestment.

Well, because the pay is $ 33,000 higher and the commute to City Hall is considerably less onerous than frequent trips up to the state capital.

New Construction, Capital Upgrades to Enhance the Student Experience QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz announced an allocation of $ 5 million of her Fiscal Year 2016 discretionary capital funds to support capital projects at all five City University of New York (CUNY) public institutions of higher learning in Capital Upgrades to Enhance the Student Experience QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz announced an allocation of $ 5 million of her Fiscal Year 2016 discretionary capital funds to support capital projects at all five City University of New York (CUNY) public institutions of higher learning in capital funds to support capital projects at all five City University of New York (CUNY) public institutions of higher learning in capital projects at all five City University of New York (CUNY) public institutions of higher learning in Queens.

Public Investments Toward Capital Upgrades to Keep CUNY Colleges in Queens Competitive QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz today announced an allocation of $ 3.64 million of her Fiscal Year 2017 discretionary capital dollars to fund projects at four of the City University of New York (CUNY) public institutions of higher learning in Capital Upgrades to Keep CUNY Colleges in Queens Competitive QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz today announced an allocation of $ 3.64 million of her Fiscal Year 2017 discretionary capital dollars to fund projects at four of the City University of New York (CUNY) public institutions of higher learning in capital dollars to fund projects at four of the City University of New York (CUNY) public institutions of higher learning in Queens.

In February, 200 public school parents from communities across New York City traveled to the State Capital in Albany for a special panel co-sponsored by State Senator Kevin Parker and StudentsFirstNY on the need for high - quality school options in our communities.

The Labour peer Andrew Adonis conceived of the high - speed rail link, which will initially shorten train times between London and Birmingham and eventually move up the country providing quicker connections between northern cities and the capital.

To get this victory — and the governor will no doubt be touting it far and wide as a victory — Cuomo had to compromise quite a bit, jettisoning his efforts to shift Medicaid and higher ed costs onto New York City (thanks to the Assembly Democrats, who dug in their heels on NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's behalf), and also bowing to the Legislature's refusal to reauthorize the so - called «rational» tuition plan for SUNY and CUNY, providing the systems with an additional $ 85 million in aid plus $ 300 million in capital funding.

REAL ESTATE — «Stringer: NYCHA apartments left vacant for years,» by Capital's Kelly Weill: «Low - income apartments run by the New York City Housing Authority are in high demand, with more than 270,000 applicants on the authority's waiting list.

Kingston City School District officials said this week the $ 137.5 million Kingston High School Second Century Capital Plan will have

Kingston City School District officials said this week the $ 137.5 million Kingston High School Second Century Capital Plan will have to go five years deeper into the century in order to get the most out of the state aid funding the bulk of the project.

Fiscal watchdogs said they're wary of the plan, as the city's capital budget is already high and that speeding up these approved projects will beget more spending.

Among governors nationwide, Colorado's John Hickenlooper stands out as a former mayor of a capital city, Denver — unlike most state government centers, the Mile - High City is its state's largest municipalcity, Denver — unlike most state government centers, the Mile - High City is its state's largest municipalCity is its state's largest municipality.

This strategy seems poised to be even more ineffective in the capital than it was in City Hall, where Mr. Barron's challenges to Ms. Quinn led to him being stripped of his chairmanship of the Higher Education Committee, and landed him near the bottom of the list of recipients of discretionary funds.

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But in the state's capital, many are hoping that ongoing movement will translate into the city's ability to set its own higher minimum wage — even if it's not as much as $ 15 an hour.

«Chuka, or should I say Harrison, has been outed as the ultimate champagne socialist who revels in living the high life, brands the public C - list celebrities and trashes our capital city.