Officials want to focus on entire river basins when making policy, rather than individual towns or cities.
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Of course the riots that occurred in London boroughs like Tottenham and Enfield, or cities like Birmingham and Manchester were serious (and big news).
States must also establish a single entity to receive Internet sales tax revenue, so retailers don't have to send them to individual counties or cities.
In the United States, nearly 100 communities or cities have passed laws limiting throw-away bag use, led by San Francisco, which passed a disposable bag ban in 2007.
The 2011 study offers an intensive analysis of air pollution in more than 900 counties and more than 200 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) and Combined Statistical Areas (CSA), or cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Midwives can go to rural areas or cities.
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The index showed that home prices fell in 19 out of the 20 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs, or cities that make up the index), with eight markets hitting their lowest levels since home prices peaked in 2006 and 2007.
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Rampant population growth and changes to the environment caused by humans, including the burning of fossil fuels and the conversion of nearly 43% of the planet's land to farms or cities, threaten to cause an abrupt and unpredictable shift in the global ecosystem, 22 scientists from five countries said in their paper.
There are several potential sources of information that can help the retiree or near retiree determine which cities or states are the most attractive.
At that point, one hopes, humanity will have developed some volcano-squelching technology that may render the problem moot, or have moved to cloud cities or Mars.
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Nor yet do all doctors work in hospitals, or in cities where moonlighting is possible.
If you live in the other half, or certain cities, you'll have to pay tax.
That means she enjoyed many of the social benefits most children in the countryside or small cities can only envy.
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's resistance to a cost savings idea floated by some that calls for splitting up the games among two or more cities.
He said there were many misconceptions about human trafficking, and its victims were not confined to the sex industry or the cities.
And in a 12-month period ending in June 2009, the majority of delays was concentrated in 26 metropolitan areas, or hub cities, the study said.
Then there are the trendy, high-tech, stylish micro-hotels sleep spots smartly designed to save you money, aggravation or both when traveling to pricey cities or through high-stress airports.
Clear Capital also breaks down their data by Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), or by cities and their surrounding suburbs as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.
In August, China said it would begin developing a large-scale demonstration project in 10 or more cities to put at least 1, 000 hybrid, fuel-cell and all-electric vehicles on the road in each of those cities and provide the necessary infrastructure for the project.
There are elections in London, for the Mayor and Assembly, in the 32 Scottish and 22 Welsh local councils, as well as for 36 English metropolitan councils and 18 English unitary authorities - not to mention at least 11 referendums on whether or not cities should switch to government by a mayoral system.
NRG, a power plant developer who has invested in some of the largest solar power projects in the country, decided to give SCS a try as it sought to expand its focus to include not just mega solar farms in remote locations but also smaller projects on commercial properties close to or within cities.
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For reasons having nothing to do with the autonomy of cathedral schools or medieval cities and towns, the Catholic popes of the high middle ages enlisted their clerics to organize a body of law, drawing from the old Roman law as well as Scripture, that could be applied throughout Europe, and allow them to centralize authority in Rome.
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Muslim people, particularly Shia - in our own country or in Iraq, in various Iraqi cities or in other parts of the world - will not remain silent at this American encroachment and audacity...
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Dash claims that it needs about 1, 000 units in most cities to cover major routes, double or triple that for the largest US cities such as New York or Los Angeles.
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For example, cities like Austin, Texas, or Naples, Florida, are growing rapidly while cities like Los Angeles or Chicago are losing their net adjusted gross income (Net AGI) in large droves.
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He has the combative charisma that Turks of the teeming cities or small Anatolian towns love.
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