Word: metropolitane
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Joining forces, Metropolitan and campus police spent most of the afternoon attempting to break up a celebration on the Weeks Foot Bridge...
...folks are our future leaders? I can't believe you go to Harvard," an incredulous patrolman Gregory Gilford of the Metropolitan District Commission (M.D.C.) said over his cruiser's loudspeaker...
Anyway, it seems I was not the only member of the press who chose to visit this particular fair. Two reporters from major metropolitan dailies also were there, asking questions about how a given family felt its lifestyle compared to that of Jessica Lange's and Sally Field's in the movie versions. Their questions were full of trendy jargon that probably went over well with the sushi-set back home but seemed lost on their down-to-earth victims: "Do you see yourself as an independent female role model for all women currently invading the workplace?" one twelve-year...
...large enough to make them think twice about their career choices. An estimated % 18% of obstetricians in the U.S. will switch to other specialties this year because coverage against malpractice suits now runs as high as $72,000 a year. Says Dr. Harry Cole, president of the St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society: "It's getting frightening. Unless we can get some relief, we're going to see high-risk patients having difficulties finding doctors to treat them...
...centuries, cities were an irresistible magnet for internal American migration. In the 1970s, however, that path was reversed as nonmetropolitan areas grew by 14.4% and metropolitan areas by 10.5%. Since 1980, however, that "rural turnaround" has again turned around, with metro areas growing faster than non-metro areas. But one aspect of the 1970s trend endures. "People are moving to smaller, less crowded communities," says Peter Morrison of the Rand Corp.'s population research center, "particularly those with a population under a quartermillion." Notes Bryant Robey, founder of American Demographics: "America's past has been one of steady centralization...