Mr Rossi, a 58-year-old lawyer, has cast himself as an anti-establishment outsider, despite a long political career that has featured stints as a federal congressman and as mayor of Osasco, an industrial suburb of Sao Paulo city, and has seen him switch parties four times and churches thrice (he is currently an evangelical Protestant).

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And Glebe Island, an industrial area in the suburb of Balmain, joined the mainland in the 1860s and now acts as a cargo storage area for freighters.

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And several departments of Berlin's Humboldt University have moved to the Adlershof industrial park in an eastern suburb, to work closely with the 200-plus technology firms that have already moved in.

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Imagine that you have five million dollars to invest and you are considering two options: one is to build a light industrial facility in an inner ring suburb and the other is a set of bonds.

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His base in Yvelines, a suburb of Paris, was an industrial-sized site incorporating a school where, on any day, 400 working chefs would be retraining in every branch of cookery.

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