These folks are taking their cues from New York, LA, Tokyo and London, but reinventing them with a Middle Eastern twist.
Yet after seeing Tokyo and London burn and the inhabitants turned into zombies, it is hard to imagine what could be worse.
In addition to purveying the world's most ruinous roast, Moscow topped Mercer's overall cost of living index for the third year in a row, finishing ahead of Tokyo and London.
This is why stocks cost, except for fractions of a moment, the same in London and New York, bonds in Tokyo and London, tin in Jakarta and Munich (allowing for taxes and transport costs).
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Crises in Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti, the Korean peninsula and ongoing traumas in our dealings with friends in places like Tokyo and London as well as past adversaries in capitals like Moscow and Beijing, are giving rise to a new conventional wisdom that the U.S. government is in the hands of incompetents.
From an international perspective, Berlin, Tokyo, London and Reykjavik all seemed to pop up on several online lists.
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The firms had gone bust and the bill was paid by shareholders in Frankfurt, Tokyo, New York and London.
It opened new stores for different lines, including an Armani Exchange location in New York City and Armani Collezioni stores in Milan, London and Tokyo.
The fundamental economic picture looks like a good one for commodities markets with global economic growth reaccelerating and central banks from Washington to Frankfurt, London and Tokyo embarked on unconventional monetary policy to spur growth.
And disciplinary action has been taken and is being taken against traders in New York, London and Tokyo who committed the offences.
During his career, Sawallisch also conducted at the Bayreuth Festival, La Scala in Milan and with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic and Tokyo's NHK Orchestra.
She took the necklace on a tour down Lexington Avenue in a hired Brinks truck and from there to swank department stores in Beverly Hills, London, and Tokyo -- as if she were toting around the Romanov jewels.
The seven plans unveiled on Wednesday were selected from more than 400 submissions and represent architectural firms from New York and Los Angeles, as well as London, Amsterdam, Tokyo and Berlin.
"They're jumping up and down with joy in London, Hong Kong and Tokyo over listings that would have gone to the U.S., " says the head of capital markets for a Wall Street firm.
Headquartered in San Francisco, the company also has offices in New York, London and Tokyo.
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The Dachis Group is also having events in cities around the world: Shanghai, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, London, Tokyo and New York.
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The city is pricier than Singapore, London, Tokyo and Paris, Savills found.
It competes with London and Tokyo, and the act makes that tougher.
As recently as spring 2012, Savills found Hong Kong as the most expensive in a company survey, outranking Singapore, London, Tokyo and Paris.
These complaints have found an audience with officials in the Bloomberg administration, who are concerned about New York's ability to compete against cities like London and Tokyo for the world's leading companies.
This commissioned piece was entitled "Time in Motion, " and has already traveled to Singapore, Macau and London and will hit Moscow and perhaps Tokyo later this year in support of the company's latest initiative.
Once complete, Burn wants to take the vibrator, along with the other gem-studded creations in his line, called Scarlet Amour, on the road in a show that will make stops in Singapore, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, London, Paris and New York.
The authors of this book paint a picture of a future Hong Kong blending the strengths of London and Tokyo, by which they mean that Hong Kong could combine the international financial vigour of the former with an equivalent industrial hinterland of the latter.
This critique was applied not only to Queens and Long Island but also to places like Milton Keynes or Basildon outside London, and greater Tokyo's Chiba prefecture.
The CIO at Barclays Capital, a few generations back, told me he wanted a software license with the same pricing, expiration date and use terms in London, New York, Tokyo, Sidney and other offices.
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And for those who follow the global markets, Girard-Perregaux's watch provides a financial function that keeps track of opening and closing times on the stock exchange in New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
Taiwan, Sydney and Tokyo will follow, as will sales offices in New York and London.
They hope to build skyscrapers in Tokyo, run banks in London and make films in Hollywood.
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