The mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, has built a business empire in a city in which prestige and politics count for more than customers or profits.
And Chicago chef Rick Bayless, who has been long content to limit his Mexican food empire to the city's downtown, has just announced the opening of two new restaurants at O'Hare.
Empire was the tiny Croatian city-state of Raguso now known as Dubrovnik.
Gray was writing in the late 70s and early 1980s when the former second city of the empire was reaching its economic and social nadir.
The towering, sequestered 300-room San Paolo Palace hotel on Palermo's eastern outskirts, part of the empire of families in the city's notorious Brancaccio district, employed 120 workers.
It is just that the city's name has been simplified to the easier-to-pronounce identity of the empire that first built it: Mexico City.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky stayed there briefly, detesting the subversive pro-Polish sentiment of what was the third-largest city in the tsarist empire.
And international financial activity will remain sluggish for some time because multinationals are not, in general, indulging in the global empire-building that gave the City so much work in the good times.
Skanska provides a detailed case study of how they were able to retrofit their New York City headquarters in the Empire State Building and first commercial building in Scandinavia to achieve LEED Platinum precertification.
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Civilization allows players to guide the development of a village into a city and then into an empire across several centuries of human history.
Six years later, Lee, 34, sits atop a mini-empire of six dining establishments across the city -- including two Mexican restaurants, an American microbrewery and a cocktail bar.
Early in the 16th century, reports of the city on the sand -- then part of the Songhay Empire -- filtered back to Europe through the Moorish diplomat and writer Leo Africanus, adding to the city's near-mythical status as an African El Dorado.
In the power vacuum that accompanied the decline of the Holy Roman Empire, a number of large and efficient city-states evolved, all having an unusually potent sense of a separate identity.
The Jews of Thessaloniki were mostly Sephardic ones, who immigrated to the city, then part of the Ottoman Empire, after 1492 to escape persecution in Spain.
It bears witness to the important role of the city in the growth of the British Empire as a major port for the mass movement of people, e.g. slaves and emigrants from northern Europe to America.
Scott Malkin, 52, founder of London-based high-end European outlet syndicator Value Retail and father Peter Malkin, 77, head of New York City real estate holding company that includes the Empire State Building, discuss their ties here.
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The remarkable tally speaks to the generosity and success of New York City's mayor, who grew a business empire after leaving Baltimore.
Under construction since 2006, One World Trade Center surpassed the Empire State Building (1, 250 feet) as the city's tallest structure in April.
The nation's oldest city was founded more than 400 years ago, and its Colonial Spanish Quarter Museum gives visitors the opportunity to see what life was like in the city when it was still an outpost of the Spanish empire.
While so many travellers, especially honeymooners, want to live out their Sleepless in Seattle fantasies, the view from Rockefeller Center incorporates the Empire State Building (and, really, what is the New York City skyline without it?).
The city's total Grade A office space could fit in the Empire State Building three times over with plenty of room to spare.
His municipal empire has been hacked back, although it still remains the biggest business in the city.
On Monday, Empire State Manufacturing added to the bear case outside of the trading floors in the city and down on the dirty and sweaty front lines.
She describes the Byzantine empire's appropriation of the Mother of God as protectress of the city of Constantinople and its rulers and the intricate metaphysical groundwork which made that change possible.
HBO's hit series Boardwalk Empire, entering its second season this September, has reincarnated a nostalgic vision of Atlantic City, replete with gangsters, molls, speakeasies and poker joints.
It is one edge of a city, vanished for a millennium: Caracol, once the centre of a mighty Mayan empire.
The restored and revitalized Empire State Building has some of the highest rents and most sought-after office space in the city.
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They also opened in Syria, especially in the cosmopolitan city of Aleppo, and then in Istanbul, the capital of the vast Ottoman Turkish Empire, in 1554.
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Start off high and cool in the city of Cuzco (UNESCO World Heritage Site), former capital of the ancient Inca Empire and today the undisputed archaeological king of the Americas.
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