The city attracts highly educated professionals who work in high-paying fields like politics and law.

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Mu Sigma specializes in advanced analytical tools and services with a team of more than 2, 500 highly educated professionals, most of them in India.

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C. attracts highly educated professionals, and Stoll says college-educated young people between the ages of 18 to 35 are the most likely to move.

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This may be wishful thinking, but his essential point is a good one: namely that the boom years before the great recession put far more wealth in the hands of highly educated professionals than in earlier times, and that this class--Ivied, cosmopolitan, sophisticated in the ways of the knowledge economy--naturally gravitates toward liberal values and politics.

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In New Hampshire, the most rapidly growing group of independents are highly-educated professionals (many of them refugees from Massachusetts and its taxes) who work in the technology corridor that includes Nashua and Route 128.

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Many of these spots are in places like Columbia Heights (where Meridian Pint is located), the U Street Corridor, Logan Circle and the area around the convention centre, once ignored by highly-educated professionals who demand good food, nightlife, arts and all the other things that make city life worth living.

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The Joneses were a crowd Dan and Tammy had hardly encountered before: professionals, entrepreneurs, highly educated people with ambition bordering on aggression.

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