Sentences with phrase «most wealthy cities»

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(23) However, while San Francisco is the least affordable city, it is not the most popular destination for wealthy Chinese investors.

As a wealthy investor he now spends most of his time running his equity portfolio from an office in the heart of rural Leicestershire, far from the noise of the City of London.

Now, Weibo photos have documented how local authorities have continued their campaign this May to de-Christianize the skyline of wealthy Wenzhou, one of China's most Christian cities, and surrounding areas.

After 1302 he never again entered his native city, at that time one of the most wealthy, beautiful, and important urban centers in the Western world.

The wealthiest Americans and the biggest corporations would share the tax burden with those (including many union members) who enjoy the most generous employer - provided health plans and those (including inner - city residents with suburban jobs) who commute long distances in gas - guzzling cars.

This used to be the wealthiest and most cosmopolitan city in the country, but it has been slowly fading for more than 20 years.

In the 1970s, churches and ministries in Mumbai, India's most populous and wealthy city, filled 50 pages; the latest edition of the Mumbai Christian Directory required 338.

I have coached in the wealthiest of suburban youth leagues and I've coached in inner city leagues that were in the most plighted areas where driving to and from practices made me very nervous.

In wealthier urban and suburban areas, most voters will be online and a majority will have broadband access, but even in far - flung rural areas or poorer parts of cities email at least is usually available.

On its face, probably not all that much, since to most of the GOP primary electorate the paper remains a liberal rag that frequently skirts the edge of treason, but with turnout expected to be low, there remain Republicans in wealthy parts of New York City suburbs who aren't paying much attention to the race, and will only decide who to vote for at the last moment, so a nod from the paper of record could prove decisive.

Lagos State has one of the most expensive housing markets of any city in Africa, and, as the rich increasingly use property as a store of value, poor people — especially those who live around wealthy neighbourhoods — are at greater risk of losing their homes.

The Real Estate Board of New York, which represents wealthy landlords in New York City, is funding an independent expenditure group called Jobs For New York, which so far has spent $ 483,609 on TV ads, staff and an avalanche of mailers in the race, according to the most recent Board of Elections filing.

The most electorally significant contests are likely to be in places where inner city deprivation brushes up against areas which are becoming wealthier.

New York City's comptroller Scott Stringer is criticizing the planned LinkNYC free Wi - Fi program, arguing that it will actually accentuate existing inequality by delivering the fastest service to the wealthiest (read: most advertising lucrative) neighborhoods years ahead of other parts of the city, reports Matt Flegenheimer for the New York TiCity's comptroller Scott Stringer is criticizing the planned LinkNYC free Wi - Fi program, arguing that it will actually accentuate existing inequality by delivering the fastest service to the wealthiest (read: most advertising lucrative) neighborhoods years ahead of other parts of the city, reports Matt Flegenheimer for the New York Ticity, reports Matt Flegenheimer for the New York Times.

Cuomo's surrogates argue he has delivered for progressives on other fronts, by brokering the passage of same - sex marriage, renewing most of a 2009 income tax surcharge on the wealthy and, after much back - and - forth with New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, authorizing the money for an expansion of pre-kindergarten programs statewide.

Currently, school funding is tailored to particular areas, with wealthier counties typically receiving less than the most deprived inner - city councils.

People were devastated to see that a major city in the wealthiest country was vulnerable and that the people most terribly affected were the poor and African Americans.

The district also includes students from both low - income and wealthy households and also is one of the nation's most desegregated systems, a product of a 1970s court - order merging of city and suburban districts to further desegregation.

While most of the city is notorious for tall narrow homes, the Golden Bend allowed its wealthy residents to build much wider estates (many of which conceal elaborate gardens out back).

When we do get a good look at the filth and squalor of Paris — at least the parts not inhabited by the wealthy (thus, most of the city)-- we see how appalling the quality of life is for the majority of Parisians and completely understand why there was an attempted revolution.

Xolani (Nakhane Toure), a lonely factory worker, has returned to his tribal homeland to take on the initiation of a wealthy friend's son, Kwanda, who comes from the city and a most reluctant inductee.

The film chronicles a young man's rise to power in Paris via his manipulation of the city's most influential and wealthy women.

The authors envision a phase - in of the plan, most likely starting in cities with many struggling students and spreading last to wealthy suburbs and rural areas.

The roster of schools they beat reads like a wealthy parent's wish list of the most desirable private schools in the country: Trinity, Collegiate, Spence, Dalton, and Horace Mann in New York City, and exclusive private schools in Boston, Miami, and Greenwich, Connecticut.

The megapolis of 23 million is one of the wealthiest, most cosmopolitan cities in China.

This was the wealthier side of Redwood City, where most of the population was white.

Currently, the highest performing, most qualified teachers in New York City are disproportionately teaching in the city's wealthiest neighborhoods and schools, while schools serving low - income and students of color are disproportionately assigned the least qualified, lowest performing teachCity are disproportionately teaching in the city's wealthiest neighborhoods and schools, while schools serving low - income and students of color are disproportionately assigned the least qualified, lowest performing teachcity's wealthiest neighborhoods and schools, while schools serving low - income and students of color are disproportionately assigned the least qualified, lowest performing teachers.

Even if they open in the most deprived parts of England, it will be difficult to establish catchment areas which do not include wealthier suburbs, especially as some of the poorest areas of the country exist within larger cities and metropolitan regions where deprivation can vary greatly between postcodes.

While folks with condescending «pull yourself up by the bootstraps» attitudes love the idea of a neighborhood public school system, they most often use this system when they can afford to move their families to the suburbs and wealthier, gentrified city enclaves.

Amir, a little boy growing up in the early 1970's in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, has the idyllic life, a wealthy father Baba, a widower, the mother died giving birth to Amir, he believes, the father hates him for that, in the most beautiful house some say in the city, a great friend Hassan, the son of Ali, a servant and loyal to the family.

One of the city's most notable attributes is that it was a winter destination for wealthy individuals in the the late 1800's.

The report noted the world's most livable cities were often mid-sized cities in wealthier countries with low population density.

7) Sam Kee's revenge: The world's shallowest commercial building is located in Vancouver, B.C. Between 1903 and 1913, city planners expropriated 24 feet of land from the Sam Kee Company (one of the wealthiest merchant's in Chinatown in the early 1900s), so the firm decided to make the most out of the space.

As a wealthy investor he now spends most of his time running his equity portfolio from an office in the heart of rural Leicestershire, far from the noise of the City of London.

Possibly the city's most famous attraction is the annual Formula 1 Grand Prix, where Monaco's wealthiest residents and visitors watch the high - powered cars screaming through the city streets from the comfort of their super yachts moored in the harbour.

This city was one of the most rich and wealthy in the 1700s, until it was hit by numerous epidemics which caused it to be abandoned.

Though it would seem easy to draw a line between a city's artistic community and its most wealthy denizens, to do so in New York City would be missing the point entircity's artistic community and its most wealthy denizens, to do so in New York City would be missing the point entirCity would be missing the point entirely.

This exhibition is a reflection on the realities of a city that was once one of the country's wealthiest and most diverse.

This post is truncated by the troubles I'm having getting online in a blacked - out part of the Hudson Valley, but I want at least to start a discussion of the prime question of the moment: What are the political, economic, societal and personal traits that caused one of the world's wealthiest and most sophisticated cities to end up (despite longstanding warnings) with flooded tunnels, subways and neighborhoods and widespread flood - triggered loss of electricity?

The cities most at risk in richer nations include Miami, Boston and Nagoya, while cities in China, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Ivory Coast are among those most in danger in less wealthy countries.

One of the city's most notable attributes is that it was a winter destination for wealthy individuals in the the late 1800's.

Oxnard is the most populous city in the Oxnard - Thousand Oaks - Ventura, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is listed as one of the wealthiest areas in America, with its residents making well above the average national income.

There is yet another reason the growth of very high productivity cities will reach a limit, namely that the wealthiest people are not always the most creative.

Most recently a Bizjournals study proclaimed Johns Creek to be the wealthiest city in Georiga and the 95th wealhtiest in the nation.