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He is recognized as the mayor who led the city from being described as ungovernable to being an international symbol of urban renaissance. Why? Because of the unprecedented record reductions in taxes, homicides and welfare numbers, and the improvement in the quality of life for all New Yorkers.

Harper understands, but I think the West does need to understand the East better. And I think that the East needs to understand the West better. I think urban needs to understand rural better and rural needs to understand urban better.

Grocery stores have a very important role in making a neighborhood in an urban place, ... But a lot has to do with which grocery store. If it's a downscale chain, people get nervous.

We are going to rally every Zimbabwean in the urban areas and rural areas for a peaceful resistance against this regime.

Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.

Kids in our urban schools, most of them minorities, are not succeeding at anywhere near the rate of their counterparts in the suburbs. And let me be clear: the failure of our urban schools to prepare our children today for the challenges of tomorrow is the civil rights issue of our generation.

I would suspect when he comes here it's going to be pretty ugly for him. I would think so. I'll be interested to see, if Urban has got a chance to run it up on him, what the final score ends up being.

Just looking at the environment, the breakdown in Iraqi defense system, and the fact that we're in there in that urban area, we're not a good target for the use of chemical weapons even if Saddam could throw them at us, and I think the guess would be he can't at this point,

I think it's lack of education - that's usually the problem with urban communities.

I think it's just going to make North Park a cultural hub in the city, ... and people will start coming back into our older urban communities and urban villages because so much of this is going on.

I think it's become a tourist attraction, which kind of takes away the nostalgia of it, ... I don't like that it's become a tourist attraction and CBGB T-shirts are sold at Urban Outfitters and stuff.

I thrive on constant stimulation artistically, whether it's listening to music, seeing art, or whatever. I try to inspire myself because the urban world and politics are quite draining.

I think the notable thing is the variety of schools on the list. We have the gamut, from urban schools to small schools in rural areas. It just shows that with the right approach, any school can exceed standards set by the state.

I think the guys who are sort of infantry in Somali piracy are not unlike low-level drug dealers in urban areas in America, who see it as, you know, not having many other options. I think it comes down to money and needing to survive.

It is funded by a grant by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

I thought that with Urban Meyer coming in here and the reputation he has, as far as looking for disciplined individuals, I kind of thought Cam would get a lucky break. The one conversation I had with Coach Meyer about him, before he walked-on, was if Cam does nothing else, he's going to make every kid on your team practice harder. I think that's one of the things he brings to the program.

I think we're always in a continuous cycle of trying to attract people who really want to teach in an urban environment, ... We already know that people in this program will have a passion for city schools.

I think they were watching the movie 'Patton' when they should have been watching 'The Battle of Algiers' about urban insurgency. I'm a Vietnam-era journalist. I think most journalists were appalled as we moved toward war in Iraq. The worst mistake this administration made was not about weapons of mass destruction. It was the administration's view that we'd be welcomed as the great liberator.

I think Urban Meyer has a future Heisman Trophy candidate, a guy who's going to lead them to a national championship.

I think urban legends, whether true or not, are a pretty sensitive gauge of people's frustrations over things like gasoline prices. The situation in Iraq is frustrating to both pro and anti-war folks, and in some of the other realities of modern life you look for someone to blame, and you start at the top.

I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that. If the cities feel a little more natural, people like to live there more rather than moving out and dividing up another piece of land that shouldn't be touched.

It is Illinois agriculture, ... with some manufacturing and perhaps a little bit of tourism. It is not an urban area.

It is a serious issue. In our rural and northern areas, having students stay in school is a far bigger challenge, in general, than in our urban areas.

Koizumi is being seen as more of a reformist, which plays well with the urban voting blocs, ... But regional factional support seems to be with Hashimoto, and also there's an issue with him on the fiscal reform and debt-restructuring front.

I think flood risk should be decreasing tomorrow, especially on Oahu. Other than urban small-stream flood advisories, I don't think we will have any warnings.

PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.

Our goal in 2006 is to continue to expand the Hard Rock brand with unique, new properties ? including urban hotel and destination resorts.

Our urban neighborhoods were being overlooked by traditional investors. Too often these inner-city markets were being written off as places of risk, ... The private markets and private capital shunned these areas.

Outside of the major urban areas in this state, there is not a robust competitive marketplace from wireless, cable or municipal telephone utilities.

Our bravest and finest carried out what was the most successful urban evacuation in modern history,

Repositioning a brand is never easy and rarely without pain. I believe the Urban brand is making the necessary changes that will allow it to more fully engage its traditional customer and return to solid profitability.

Red Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army.

Parking, traffic, those are issues tied to urban life. It's not necessarily a bad thing, ... I don't know how a merchant can think there's too much traffic.

Party label doesn't matter nearly as much anymore at the mayoral level. The real long-term trend everywhere is moving away form the party operations that rooted urban politics in patronage, but that's not to say there isn't still a strong liberal social leaning in many cities.

Party label doesn't matter nearly as much anymore at the mayoral level, ... The real long-term trend everywhere is moving away form the party operations that rooted urban politics in patronage, but that's not to say there isn't still a strong liberal social leaning in many cities.

People know him as the man who was the leader of an urban renaissance of the city that was deemed to be ungovernable. His legacy is sustained by the accomplishments as leader of New York City for eight years.

People have increasingly been attracted to the cleaner, simpler living space that a loft can provide. People are more accustomed to or hungry for the urban lifestyle.

Sports footwear usually is also the first place urban consumers will spend money to endorse a celebrity. As we've already seen, people will pay over $100 for the G-Unit or an S-Carter Reebok if it creates the right image for them.

My own interest was borne out of the frustration of watching white and Latino guys write these urban movies that had no genuine (ear) for the dialogue.

My whole philosophy when I got this started was to create an arm for urban movies. And you now, it took me a little longer to get that finished, but now we have it.

Many handset manufacturers bet against it, notably Samsung and LG. Now, many of the U.S.-based and European wireless carriers are behind it. They're building hybrid networks, using 3G networks in urban areas and using Edge in rural areas.

Local services are often seen as not being as cheap as supermarkets, but people don't do all the sums. In rural areas fewer people means there will be fewer sales, whereas in urban areas more people mean more sales. It is supply and demand.

Look at our population here. People come from all over the country: urban areas, rural areas, suburban areas. We also have international students here. If you look at the national statistics, and you look at correlation and probability, that means that possibly one in 200 students here could be HIV positive.

I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.

I think if you watch the aggressive way Urban Meyer coaches on the sidelines during a game, and watch his wife in the stands, you know they're not going to take no for answer from a recruit. I think his persona has a lot to do with his recruiting.

I think of LA as my American urban experience, London as my European urban experience, and Santa Fe as my country escape.

It doesn't matter if they are black or white, whether they come from urban or suburban neighborhoods. When they basically get what they want and there are less rules that apply to them, the potential for abusive situations is increased.

I think he's completely misdiagnosed the problem of the urban schools. His contention that they are deliberately starved of resources by a racist society is a wacky idea. It's not true.

I think he's completely misdiagnosed the problem of the urban schools, ... His contention that they are deliberately starved of resources by a racist society is a wacky idea. It's not true.

It allows for an urban renewal agency to take the increase in the property taxable investment over and above what is currently paid on a piece of property. It allowed for a revenue stream.

I think this is going to be a tremendous Pan American Games. It will leave a great legacy for the city, not only in terms of sport infrastructure but in urban improvements as well.

We live in such an urban environment and there's a lack of wildlife. It's just intriguing. It's like having a zoo right in your back yard.

You could call it that [urban Western], I guess, you could certainly call it that. A lot of these types of films are, really, if you get down to the core most suspense thrillers in this genre, the Western is sort of the birth of it all.

The abject poverty revealed by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans exists in every urban area of the United States. It's poverty so severe that it kills people.

The arena was an indication to all that Charlotte is serious about its urban core.

The art of urban planning is not just to do fantasies, to impose mega-structural ideas, but to create rich fabric that has the complexity of New York City. New York City is not just a simple-minded village,

That work (surveying) is still ongoing and I'm awaiting the results, Urban said.

That was something you don't see every day. It's obvious people are very exited about the University of Florida football, and it's obvious people are thrilled that Urban Meyer is our coach.

That way, we solve the problem of leveling the playing field. It would cover the urban area surrounding Springfield, and then in the outlying areas, out in the middle of the county, it could still be legal to smoke in public places.

The 1890s was a decade when life began to change in urban America. Modern conveniences that we now take for granted came into use; women's roles became less restrictive; and San Francisco, a port city with influences from all over the world, was a lively place in which to reside.

My biggest challenge is to not do urban movies for the rest of my life, those alpha hoodies.

Mexico City's pollution probably doesn't have a global impact, but all urban areas together do, and the world is urbanizing. If we can understand the pollution impacts of Mexico City, we can apply this new knowledge to other urban areas across the globe.

Wild and urban at the same time - that's the type of woman I'm with.

Wherever there is a live-entertainment district, I don't care what urban setting you are talking about, there are going to be homeless people.

While the bourbon category has been sluggish overall, premium whiskeys such as Maker's Mark have enjoyed double-digit sales increases. Maker's Mark is enjoying popularity particularly with the urban sophisticates.

While the athletic footwear giants are breaking the bank with their new technology-driven footwear, today's consumers are also looking for fashionable functionality and affordability in all of their shoes. Many urban styles are evolving into a classier and dressier look, and comfort-wear consumers are looking for additions like ornaments and textures, whatever will make their shoes a unique expression of their own evolving sense of style.

We're bringing in food, water, and the medical teams and urban search-and-rescue teams to have a massive response.

We're creating these massive urban areas in the Third World. It's like you take the entire population of California and put it in one city. Then you remove basic sanitation and medical services, and you have a ticking biological time bomb.

We are thrilled to bring Hard Rock hotel to Europe for the very first time. The Hard Rock Hotel in Madrid will epitomize the ideal of urban luxury and is guaranteed to deliver to our guests the unique and dynamic experience for which Hard Rock has become famous.

We must take more direct and effective policies ... to strengthen, support and protect agriculture and increase rural incomes in line with the needs to balance urban and rural development,

We believe this could be a nice, one-of-a-kind urban experience.

We had a long discussion about that, ... The idea was that urban planners came to us and thought they wouldn't be completing their obligations to a 30- to 40-year project unless they offered up another site that was obvious to them should be considered. Rather than shut that off, the commissioners thought it might as well be on the table for further discussion.

We've got the critical mass of urban dwellers for them, with all the new building and conversions we've had. ... But with their popularity, their trading ring would be 60 or 70 miles, which would include Boulder and Colorado Springs.

We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.

We're working hard to make the housing department more efficient and provide more affordable housing. Those efforts aren't diminished. But we're complying with what the Housing and Urban Development department has said.

With the success of Immature, I wanted to start the group B2K, which ended up being one of the biggest urban boy bands in history.

We're really looking at our target as urban nomads.

We have a lot of big-city issues. I think that we always need to remember that, while we have about 65,000 inside the city limits, we have 130,000 in the urban area.

Typically, urban search and rescue teams are used for earthquakes. But they're available for any kind of disaster.

Typically, market-driven growth spawns urbanisation and leads to migration. Urban centres expand into humongous entities that thrive on an unending supply of energy.

Today there are fewer interactions between the fishing community and population as a whole, partly because there are fewer fisherman. But we've also changed. We're not truly rural anymore, in the sense of the occupations you now find here. We tend to be a lot of urban people living in small towns.

Transnational street gangs pose a growing public safety threat to urban and rural communities throughout the United States. Their violence, sophistication and scope have reached intolerable levels.

Today's news is a forewarning for congress and the administration. If we fail to expand and modernize our public transportation systems, the growing gridlock in many urban areas will strangle economic progress and lessen the quality of life.

Yeah, you got the family dog and the white picket fence, and you just think that's all there is. Some of us had to grow up in poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, and we just had to adapt to our environment. I know that it's wrong. But people act like it's some crazy thing they never heard of. They don't know.

You know, urban culture is fun; it's lovely.

Unlike past national elections, it seems swing voters in urban areas are supporting the LDP this time.

We have an obesity epidemic, with more than 20 percent of our 7-17 year old children in urban centers tipping the scales as either overweight or obese.

The practice of torture, though on decline particularly in urban areas, remains widespread in China.

Those counties represent both rural and urban areas, ... The state is asking companies to compete for services through a bidding process. The important result is that with some time everyone will be able to study the 'old' way of doing Medicaid--which is still in existence in parts of Florida--with this new pilot program. We believe the research will be undeniable that the free-market system will lower costs, improve efficiency, and validate the dignity of the individual." ()

to become one of the best, if not the best urban school district by 2010.

We're not sitting here thinking there's going to be another property tax increase next year, ... I can tell you that now. I remain hopeful that this is the year in which the state will provide additional resources to the urban systems.

We have lower incomes in the state, which is one reason. And it's a lot harder to pretend to be someone from Belt than it is to be someone from a bigger urban area like New York City.

We're long past the point where individual cities, especially in the crowded urban areas, can go it alone. It is now time to work together.

We actually think the community is ready for some compromise, even on the urban projects. If he extends an open hand to the community, he'll find us extending a hand back.

We actually now have a policy proposal that will bring a lot of those derelict lots into use, particularly in urban Barbados ? Bank Hall, Bush Hall, and so on,

There is more happening today in the urban and developed part of New Jersey than has happened in the last several decades. A lot of that is in part because of the success of defending the environment out in the hinterland.

There is a structural problem in the rural economy and a structural problem in the urban economy, that's really the story. It's really coincidental that everything has gone bad at one time.

We do a lot of urban infill all over California. It's a very attractive site because it's sizable. The ingress and egress is great. You have the golf course across the freeway and a lot of retail in the area.

We want to just alert people that it's just as serious in suburbia for younger people as it is for older people in urban areas of America.

We believed (similar) fights had been wrongly marketed, to some extent. Urban audiences, African-American audiences weren't getting the attention they deserved.