Shanghai and Chicago have been sister cities since 1985, and these two cities have conduct a wide range of economic, political, and cultural exchanges.

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"Customers all over Kansas are eager for 4G LTE, so we are excited to deliver it to these two cities, " said Rob Bryant, regional vice president, Sprint.

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In these two cities we conducted workplace personality assessments with some 8, 000 candidates and were able to place approximately 4, 000 of them in a wide range of jobs with some 55 companies.

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Two big factors behind these differences are the dissimilarity of the rental and for-sale inventory being used to compute the simple price-rent ratio and the big differences in property taxes between these two cities.

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These are two conjoined cities whose economies depend on the imbalances created by the national border than runs along the river that marks the border.

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For the past two decades, the most interesting rivalry involving these cities has been in derivatives.

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"You have these cities you assume to be violent, and New Orleans is two or three times worse, " said Peter Scharf, director of the Center for Society, Law and Justice at the University of New Orleans.

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