The number of oil and gas rotary drill operates in the metropolitan region is 14 times the national average.
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The battles up until now have been very local-specific to the politics and nuances of each city or metropolitan region.
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The approach, meant to govern with a broad metropolitan region in mind in this case, packing multiple transit bodies under one roof is steadily becoming more popular.
The number of manufacturing jobs has fallen by 20% over the past 30 years in the metropolitan region, and by 50% in the city itself.
The New York metropolitan region is woefully underserved by the destination spa market, and not everyone wants to hop on a plane for a relaxing getaway.
Half of the stroke patients in the study lived within 1km of a major road in the Boston metropolitan region, and the rest lived between 1km and 10km (six miles) away.
The researchers will leverage a first-of-its-kind learning and predictive analytics tool called the IBM Traffic Prediction Tool (TPT), developed by IBM Research, which continuously analyzes congestion data, commuter locations and expected travel start times throughout a metropolitan region that can affect commuters on highways, rail-lines and urban roads.
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An estimated three million people evacuated from the metropolitan Houston region before the hurricane struck, but stalled cars without gas nearly brought the evacuation to a standstill.
Attacks and counterattacks are suspected between the Sinaloa and Zeta cartels over the region that is centered around metropolitan Torreon, in Coahuila state, and includes portions of Durango state.
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In contrast the largest metropolitan area in the country, the New York region, will grow by a mere 75, 000 households, a paltry 1.7% clip, while Los Angeles will add only 46, 000.
In our national ranking of 200 metropolitan regions for employer attractiveness, the four-county Syracuse region ranks in the bottom quintile. (See "map") Some of the factors indirectly affecting this ranking are beyond any city's control--such as climate and transportation grids--but one very big one is very much the province of politicians: taxes.
With over 42, 000 graduates, two-thirds of whom live and work in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, Fox is a major source of management talent in the region and has close relations with business.
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Cooperation by all levels of government - federal, state and municipal - is a crucial element necessary for long-term recovery in the region, said Amy Liu, deputy director of The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program.
They are a large group, a vital group in the development of any community or region, and provide both the critical mass, ideas, and energy to grow our metropolitan regions.
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