The New York Genome Center was one of seven qualifying entrants to a city competition for funding and land to create a technology campus on Roosevelt Island.
With the announcement Monday, there are now three schools expanding their engineering programs in New York, all outgrowths of a city competition, launched in 2010, to create a technology and engineering campus on Roosevelt Island.
Now, eight years later, New Orleans is at the forefront of video game development, putting the fun-loving city in competition with major gaming hotspots like Austin, San Francisco, Toronto, and Quebec.
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Entrants for the 2017 UK City of Culture competition are expected to find out in June whether they have progressed to the next round of the competition.
But recent figures from the Conference Board of Canada predict that Canada's capital city will outpace the competition in 2011.
Sinn Fein had opposed the move to become a city because of the competition's links with the Queen's Golden Jubilee.
Even the demise of Circuit City has not stopped competition from intensifying.
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Nigel Parr, head of the competition group at City lawyers, Ashurst Morris Crisp, says there is clear evidence that high-level lobbying does take place.
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Far from fearing private-school competition, the city's public system has embraced it: it has already absorbed three private religious schools (two Christian, one Hebrew).
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The Chinese government strictly controls gambling licenses so the problems that hit Las Vegas with over-supply and competition from Atlantic City and Indian casinos are not an issue.
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Among the items discussed were how to improve competition between the city's other bus operators and the introduction of a "smart ticketing" system similar to London's Oyster card, which would work with different providers.
The Bloomberg administration is considering such a delay because it doesn't want to create competition for the city's ambitious Hudson Yards project on the Far West Side, where developers are still seeking anchor tenants to help get large office towers off the ground.
The Government's expectation is that only one new city will be created as a result of the diamond jubilee competition and, similarly, that only one existing city will be granted a lord mayoralty or lord provostship.
In 1993 the city of Strasbourg won an international competition to host the school.
Once its biggest competition Circuit City fell a malaise seemed to fall over the chain.
The government wants to build on the success with a competition for a British city of culture to be held every four years.
In 2002 he qualified for the Olympic team and went on to win a gold medal in the half-pipe competition in Salt Lake City.
For instance, Sydney is the first Olympics in which NBC is in competition with the host city to find advertisers for their respective Web sites.
India has long since turned itself into the world's back-office subjecting paper-processing hubs such as Kansas City to the same forces of competition that devastated former industrial cities such as Gary, Indiana.
The city's congestion nightmare would ease at a stroke, much valuable property would be freed for the sort of things that London does best and an entire tier of competition to misgovern the city would be eliminated.
The photo essay put together before the boxer competed at National Golden Gloves competition in Salt Lake City, features photos that were taken while Tsarnaev trained at the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts Center in Boston, hoping to be selected for the United States team in order to become a naturalized citizen.
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This year's International Chefs Congress in New York City will even be hosting a barbecue competition.
The 24-year-old becomes manager Rafael Benitez's first summer signing after the Reds boss beat off competition from Chelsea and Manchester City.
Graham Allen is promoting ideas such as an enormous steel bow and arrow and an international archery competition to help promote the city.
But Bolivar, the biggest team from La Paz (3, 600 metres) are competition stalwarts, and their city rivals The Strongest are frequent participants, though they have failed to qualify this year.
But UEFA took no action against City, who were knocked out of the competition by another Portuguese side, Sporting Lisbon, in the last 16.
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The city's casinos continue to fight increased competition in neighboring states and were hurt by the after-effects of Superstorm Sandy, which kept some visitors away for months.
On a fundamental level, they see RadioShack as a store that's pretty much stuck in a time warp, little changed from its headier days when competition from Best Buy and Circuit City wasn't a concern.
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