This has caused a drumbeat of complaints that San Francisco is degenerating into a theme park.
All of which should remind us that San Francisco is far from unbeatable.
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Riccitiello observes that San Francisco is one of the few major cities where traffic flows out of the city in the morning, not into the city.
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While there is more vacant land in Detroit than there is land in San Francisco, that is mostly outside Ford Field.
But Boston has added a new branch that is quite similar to San Francisco in that it attracts young technology talent that enjoys living and working in an urban setting.
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And again, that's the - San Francisco is like that as well - but in New York City...
Worse news is that Daly is a former member of the San Francisco police commission, the body that regulates the police department.
People close to Twitter have said that the San Francisco company is ahead of 2012 revenue projections laid out last year and that the company has largely ruled out acquisitions as it builds its business for a potential initial public offering in a year or so.
It is said that conquistador Francisco Pizarro received a 22-ft. by 17-ft. room full of gold, and two of silver, in exchange for captured Inca ruler Atahualpa in 1532.
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On the question of call quality: De La Vega says the biggest issue in San Francisco is that they need to replace omnidirectional antennas in the financial district.
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Ditto's predicament has attracted the attention of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco nonprofit that is focused on digital-rights issues and is actively working to change federal legislation to curb patent abuse.
The second reason that I was chosen for this role is that I live almost equidistant between San Francisco and San Jose.
"It is miraculous that there is something out there, " says San Francisco resident Karen Durrant, whose 7-year-old son has the neonatal-onset disease.
About 2, 500 people currently live on Treasure Island, a man-made island in the middle of San Francisco Bay that dates back to the late 1930s and is connected to San Francisco and Oakland by the Bay Bridge.
The San Francisco answer to that is to line up 11 of the fastest, most athletic, hardest-hitting defenders available and tell them to get after the quarterback and the ballhandler like crazed dogs.
The news that the City of San Francisco is no longer going to buy Macs is not going to make Apple CEO Tim Cook lose sleep since fewer than 2 percent of their computers are Macs, but it remains to be seen is any other agencies will follow suit.
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"Instead of just having 1, 000 books, they have 10 times or 100 times that, " says David Risher, co-founder of a San Francisco-based nonprofit called Worldreader that is leading the experiment in Uganda and two other African countries.
To support his idea that density is good, Avent points out that average incomes in the San Francisco Bay Area are very high.
But Cliff Robertson is no Charles Boyer (let alone James Stewart), New Orleans is not evoked with the stately detail that Hitchcock invested in San Francisco, and, of course, De Palma is not Hitchcock.
The lawsuit filed in a federal court in San Francisco argues that the policy is unconstitutional.
What unites his supporters in San Francisco is a sense that their familiar world is changing too fast.
The difference is that the private contractor in San Francisco has no sense of entitlement or feeling of permanency.
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According to two studies presented to the International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste, held in San Francisco this week, that is exactly what happens.
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That era is already dawning, contends San Francisco entrepreneur Jon Bischke.
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The company is a hot San Francisco startup that already has 25 outposts around the world for its simple, seductive service: on-demand transportation.
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Even though 2012 was the year that Facebook launched its IPO, San Francisco is out of the top 10 mainly because many billionaires live near the metropolitan area.
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That in itself is an accomplishment worth celebrating, but the innovative spirit of San Francisco and Silicon Valley had an impact that extended far beyond northern California.
The risk to San Francisco, he says, is that jobs will increasingly flow from the city to the Valley.
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They swiped this figure from the San Francisco Fed to show that this shrinkage is a new trend.
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