In the City, Relationships Reduced to Transactions
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At its heart, âLost in Beijingâ is a sturdy morality tale about innocence and corruption, wealth and want, sex and power.
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Murder rates for 2004 decline in many cities, but gang violence leads to some exceptions.
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With so few mergers and acquisitions these days and with fees for them shrinking, bankers have found a new way to milk more cash out of deals: working with both buyer and seller.
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Encysive restructures to reduce its cash burn.
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The area's mix of retail tenants is changing from mom-and-pop shops to a blend of well-known chains.
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If all goes as expected, the twins glut weâre experiencing now will not be a permanent facet of life in the city.
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Hundreds of the cityâs best and brightest are leaving, driven away by crime, high rents and what many say is a dissipating sense of possibility.
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A crackdown on crime and blight around Skid Row has resulted in a migration of homeless people out of downtown, significantly reducing the area's transient population but also putting a strain on homeless service providers elsewhere.
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For many men, loyalty is sacred. Except when it isn't.
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When Connecticut's largest city was mired in the economic slump of the early 1990s, the homicide toll climbed to record levels and drug dealers and gang leaders ruled, charging tolls to cross their turf. Then, when economic relief came to Bridgeport in the late 1990s, violent crime fell, as it did in other big cities around the country.
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In this conservative kingdom's most conservative city, a sheen of modernity bumps against deep tradition.
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A high-profile probe and a towing scandal are the latest in the city's struggles against crooked deals.
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The credit squeeze has even affected the office market in red-hot Manhattan, as prices have declined because loans are not being made freely.
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Those who move from the mainland find that everything costs more and salaries are generally lower.
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With two of Boston's best-known mutual fund companies put up for sale last month , the city may seem like it's losing its edge in a sector it helped build.
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Here's a city with a parking crisis, crippling traffic jams, and unaffordable rents.
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Distinctions between local economies are being overridden by a mortgage market that has made it more difficult for many would-be homebuyers to obtain financing.