That is understandable given salaries that are, on average, four times those across the river.
The three-bedroom home, whose two-story windows overlook a terrace stretching out of the living room, has been inundated by a nearby river seven times since the Tarantinos purchased it.
There are times and places where the river and the road battle it out and the river wins.
By last month DLJ Merchant, now part of Credit Suisse First Boston Private Equity, had sold its entire stake in Charles River for four times what it had paid 36 months earlier.
At 28 times expected 2002 earnings, Charles River's stock leaves no room for disappointments.
The government of Changsha in Hunan has reassured worried residents that no infectious diseases have been discovered in the pig carcasses in Liuyang river, Global Times reports.
Larger fish that eat smaller fish can have concentrations of toxin a thousand times higher than the levels found in the river's sediment.
Times have changed since Henry Ford made the River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan, into the ultimate in vertical integration, with iron ore going in one end and shiny Model A's coming out the other.
Across the Amur river in China, it is 140 times as much.
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But debts grew, their bankers forced the sale of New Kilbowie Park in 1996 and hard times continued as lodgers to Dumbarton then Morton across the River Clyde in Greenock.
They showed that the levees along a navigation channel east of the city, known as the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, sank at five-times the average rate for the rest of the city.
Nibbling at the edges of the asphalt, the river pressed the road against red cliffs so that at times the rock faces seemed to scrape the windows.
The river ferry would not have survived without new private investors at critical times, however.
He felt his way to the Meng river running through his village, stumbling and falling, hundreds of times.
Persistence is critical, said Pillay and Warren, who emphasize showing up at the same place, at the same times, with the same Christian message, like Cabral with his cross at the Fall River intersection.
How can this be worse than sleeping on top of her parents' graves, saying Kaddish so many times the words ran together like nonsense, worse than sitting for days by the Pripiat River, watching for a little sock or Sophie's blue petticoat, sitting in the mud in only a nightgown and blanket, until the weather changed and Mariam came with the flier for America?
The New York Times has a hilarious article on a bunch of neuroscientists who take a rafting vacation on a river without cell reception.
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Tidal currents exceed 12 knots at times, creating tidal rapids with massive whirlpools that can make the sea look more like a raging river.
In their university-funded study, Dr. Brodin and his colleagues first tested wild European perch caught from a midsize stream in Sweden called the River Fyris and found that levels of the drug in fish tissue were more than six times the level commonly detected in the water.
During the monsoon, when the plains around the river and its tributaries flood, the habitat for fish suddenly increases by as much as ten times.
But times change, and Mr MacAdams's outfit is now one of several that take an interest in the river.
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