Word: metropolitane
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...sorting room of the 1940s- style office and killed his supervisor and the labor arbitrator who had turned down his appeal for reinstatement. In all, he murdered four and wounded five others, fatally shooting himself in the head. The shooting spree prompted an urgent plea for blood donors throughout metropolitan Detroit...
Those smiles draw some people here, but others wonder how long the small- town feeling, or the friendliness, can last. The metropolitan area has a population of 477,400 (it was 358,800 a decade ago), and the number is expected to double in the next 10 years. The U.S. government used Fresno as a dumping ground for refugees created by its actions in Indochina, particularly the mountain Laotians called Hmong. There are 31,000 Hmong in the area, many clustered in a neighborhood known as Ban Vinai -- for the refugee camp some of them came from. The ethnic...
...just goes to show that Cambridge's increasingly metropolitan exterior belies its quirky, small-town interior...
...suggest that Cambridge should challenge other cities in the metropolitan region to do the same thing. While this may sound complex and possibly undoable, it's really quite remarkable what individuals and institutions can do if they really put their minds to it," he said...
Although Venezuela is one of the world's leading oil producers, it has been in virtual economic freefall for the past decade, said Dr. Pablo Pulido, president of the Metropolitan University Foundation in Venezuela. While 37 percent of Venezuelans lived in poverty in 1981, 80 percent are now officially considered poor, he said...