While newcomers in cities can learn from senior colleagues on the job, correspondents working in rural areas often work without guidance.
While in some cities, such as Liverpool, religious schools can be found at the bottom as well as the top of the league tables, church schools remain among the most sought after in the country.
While our cities in theory competed with one another, they in practice had special roles to play.
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While physicians in other cities attended duels as agents of mercy, bearing medication and bandages, in New Orleans they took up guns and swords themselves.
Delivery.com, founded in 2004, lets users order from nearly 10, 000 restaurants in 50 cities, while California-based Eat24.com, founded in 2008, covers 20, 000 restaurants in 1, 000 cities across the country.
Housing values dropped in 73 cities while 26 posted gains, and one reported no changes in residential prices, the paper reported.
Instead, it will strike different regions in very different ways, likely boosting some cities while falling flat in others.
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Compared to February, new home sales prices declined in 46 out of 70 cities while that of 16 cities remained at the same level, the Bureau said in a statement.
The 2014 World Cup is set to be played in 12 Brazilian cities, while the 2016 Olympics are to take place in Rio de Janeiro.
The 2014 World Cup is set to be hosted in 12 Brazilian cities, while the 2016 Olympics are to take place in Rio de Janeiro.
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Syriza also did very well in major cities like Athens, while Samaras did well in the countryside, where voters are more conservative and he is trusted by the older generation.
Tennis courts have sprouted in major cities while academies are attracting youths who idolize super-stars like Roger Federer, Serena Williams and local standouts like Zheng Jie.
Europe took 150 years to grow from 10 percent population in the cities to 50 percent, while North America reached the same point in 105 years.
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Industrial production, retail sales and fixed-asset investment were all up in November, while new home prices rose in 53 out of 70 major cities in China in November, from the previous month.
He described the way people talk and misbehave while he plays, especially in the cities outside Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai.
In February 2012, sales prices of second-hand residential buildings decreased in 18 cities, while that of 3 cities remained at the same level.
While early FTTH services were concentrated in cities, said Mr Helsen, many more were reaching out to rural areas for e-health and e-learning projects.
Like Anfield, Boston's Fenway Park is one of the best-known sports venues in the world, while both cities have a strong expatriate affinity with Ireland.
And it said that while there were many malnourished Indians in cities such as Delhi and Bombay, the problem was often worse in the smaller cities and towns where there were fewer jobs and resources were scarcer.
"You have displaced people living in hunger in the cities of Colombia while they still have property, " Valdivieso said.
More than seventy per cent of physicians in high-cost cities referred the patient to a gastroenterologist, ordered an upper endoscopy, or both, while half as many in low-cost cities did.
As for the job market, bleak seems an accurate description in both cities: San Fran comes in at No. 23, while New York ranks dead last.
Meanwhile, the Egyptian government has concentrated its development spending in the big cities and on desert-reclamation schemes, while channelling private investment into industry and property in the north.
Some stores are large, while others are smaller depending on the cities in which they are located.
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On a yearly basis, all cities posted gains in January while 19 of the 20 showed acceleration ( Detroit slowed down but still posted double-digit increases).
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While these events, which take place in several cities, may each attract only 3, 000-plus dirt-loving competitors, marketers can make an on-site impression with a passionate audience.
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Two weeks ago, real estate consulting firm Knight Frank said that China housing prices rose 9.3% in 2012, while Hong Kong housing prices rose the most out of all the 55 countries and cities in their Global House Price Index, up 23.6%.
While the number of violent crimes have plummeted in other cities, they have remained high there.
While homicide rates remain stubbornly high in most major US cities, violent crime is extremely rare in Dakar.
If anything, the dysfunction in Washington reminds us that cities (while, yes, still home to intractable ills) are the most willing laboratories of policy and economic innovation.
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