The original plaintiffs in the district court cases were the City of New York, two hospital associations, and two unions representing health care employees. ... Appellees then filled out two separate actions against the president, with plaintiffs in the first case coming from the City of New York, two hospital associations, and two unions that represented health care workers. ... The decision was made by District Courts in favor of the City of New York, health care workers, hospitals, and farmer's association with 6 votes for, and 3 votes against. As stated above, the litigants involve...

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Throughout the history of immigration, New York city has become a city which contains most various ethnic groups and immigrants around the world. Yet, New York City has formed various divisions of neighborhood due to its diversity. ... Flushing, a neighborhood in the north-central part of the New York City borough of Queens, is a large commercial and retail area and is the fourth largest central business district in New York City. ... The political stature of Flushing appears to be increasing significantly, with many Chinese from Flushing becoming New York City Council members. ... Flushing f...

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Introduction With increasing levels of homelessness in New York City and rapid population growth, housing New York City residents has become a key issue. ... " Like any densely populated city, New York's wealthy are able to enjoy the luxuries of the city, while the working class are barely able to pay their rent. "However, no other city in the country has rental levels as high as New York.... In New York City, median rental levels went up approximately by $1,450, while the median income went down by approximately $560. ... So far, New York State has approved land banks only in f...

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The vast majority of immigrants, who lived in cities, lived in tenements. ... Up to 4,000 people lived on some city blocks. ... (Comment, "How The Other Half Lives", New York City/East European Jews/At Work). ... They played a crucial role in the building of the modern infrastructure of the city including Grand Central Station. ... (Comments, "Italians in America", New York City/Italians/At Work) Italian railroad gangs endured primitive living conditions, often building their own housing or living in windowless boxcars, which attracted strong concern from social reformers. ...

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A Comparison of the representation of New York in the openings of The Sopranos and Manhattan New York is a city well represented in the world of film and television. ... The overall impression of New York given by The Sopranos is one of a city with a dark side. Unlike many images of New York, this does not emphasise the city's glamorous side. ... Manhattan, on the other hand, places far greater emphasis on the traditional, cool, sophisticated image of New York as a city of dreams, of bright lights and a spectacularly beautiful man made horizon. ... He narrates the opening sequence as a...

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Walking along a river that led into the city. ... Lost in my own city. ... We frolicked like lambs and ran like bulls through the city. ... I had wrung the city dry of all that it could offer me. ... The ticket for New York in my hand. ...

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In fact, the city is the only real character. ... She describes the feelings, smells, sights, and sounds with such clarity that the city becomes a person to the reader. ... It is easy to see how six months can become eight years as she describes her love for the city and all the excitement it provides. ... Didion loves New York tremendously for several years, but as time wears on, the city begins to lose its appeal. ... Her depression grows worse until she eventually leaves the city. ...

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Before it opened, "a shipper paid $100 to send a ton of freight from Buffalo to New York City and the trip took 20 days. ... The success of the Erie Canal was also a turning point for New York City. Before it was dug, Boston, Philadelphia, and even Baltimore were more important cities than New York. ... The population grew by leaps and bounds, and soon New York became the largest city in America. ... Before the canal, the cost to ship one ton of goods from Buffalo to New York City cost $100. ...

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With this, an interest in commerce intensified as ri-valries between the city-states did. ... This led to the growth and prosperity of the city of Naukratis during the 26th Dynasty (664-525 B.C.) in the northwestern Nile River Delta. ... For the New York Kouros, a grid pattern of twenty-one and one fourth squares was followed. ... The New York Kouros differs by one standard deviation only three times when compared to the Egyptian canon. ... This scheme lacks precision though be-cause no national or even city standards of measurement exist during the Archaic period. ...

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Cities, Suburbs, and Country 1. People Flock to Cities a. ... The growth of cities changed leisure patterns. b. City life was different. c. ... Most Americans got their first real glimpse of the new European approach at a major art show at New York's 69th Infantry Regimental Armory in 1913. 3. ...

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The controversy over school prayer in the Engel versus Vitale case started over a prayer recited in the New York public school system, known as the Regent's Prayer. ... The New York public school system wanted to instill values into their students. ... Even in the New York public school district in which the prosecutor's children attended only twenty-nine of the four thousand five hundred students asked to be excused from the prayer (Haas 39). ... "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us our parents, our teachers, and our country," rec...

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"It's cold and gloomy here in New York, but that's okay because the weather fits my mood gloomy." ... His diary indicates he set over 1400 fires in New York during 1975. ... With the New York City Police Department shrinking in size from 3000 officers to 1800 David would get away with the murders for over one year. ... For a year that is where David remained until August 3, 1977 when he was caught in front of his house in Yonkers New York City. ... A man comes to escort me to my future home of Attica prison in the state of New York. ...

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Among the different groups of people that were speaking out about productions across the country, one thing was made clear by this group speaking out in New York. ... Years later, (approximately 93) a new, two-part play came into focus in the city called Angels in America. This new work by Tony Kushner examines the AIDS crisis in New York which included nude scenes and homosexual themes throughout both parts of the play. ... The fact that Angels premiered in New York is the reason for the attention it got and the manner it was received. If that show were to be premiered or even showed at the s...

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It was the New York. ... He won two Pulitzer Prizes and 4 New York Drama Critices" circle Awards Arthur Miller Arthur Miller began his life on Oct. 17, 1915. ... The Man who held all the luck won a prize offered by New York's City's Theater Guild in 1944. ...

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There was only one building in the city under construction and all the major companies in the area were either under construction or going out of business. ... She read everything about flowers, took a course in floral design at New York's Botanical Gardens, and used her advertising and marketing background to peddle sumptuous floral arrangements and original designs. ... The difficult part about starting the Daily Blossom all those years ago was standing out in New York, a city with a reputation for having some of the best products and services you can find. ...

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This flight was from L.A.X. to New York (J.F.K.), and was about six hours long. ... It was about ten thirty New York time Thursday morning. ... We got to Nizhny Novgorod early in the morning, got a quick tour of the city, and then got shown the hotel that we were staying at. ... The weeks leading up to "the Americans coming," there were numerous threats involving us, so the city assigned us security guards. ...

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Some city officials believe that the homeless choose not to work ("Introduction"). ... Bitter cities have turned to eviction to try to solve their ever-growing homeless problem (Cohen, 28). Where are almost thirty-five million people to go when the only home they have known has been a box underneath a bridge that is being fenced off because the city is "tired" of dealing with the problem? ... This is seen in a New York shelter where a single bed will accommodate as many as six different people in one year ("Homeless"). ...

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The Institute for Social Research at York University for the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit at the University of Toronto performed a study on smoking attitudes and behaviors. ... An identical law was passed in New York called the Smoke-Free Act that banned smoking in almost all the restaurants in the city (OCAT). ... Other organizations against public smoking include the Southern Tier Tobacco Awareness Coalition formed in upstate New York and the Tobacco-Free Tri-Counties including Washington Counties and Oregon. ...

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Communication is the link between various cities in a state, states in a country, countries in a continent and continents in the world. ... You may be separated from some of your co-workers by several time zones I was ever so lucky to score an internship with a Fortune 500 company, and have a chance to fly to New York for one of the biggest events in fashion: "Fashion Week", I traveled with Alice Kim the fashion editorial editor to New York along with m...

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Shaw had earlier served in the Seventh New York National Guard and the Second Massachusetts Infantry, and was appointed colonel of the Fifty-fourth in February 1863 by Massachusetts governor John A. ... We encamped in the city that night, and destroyed the depot, together with three locomotives and a train of thirty-five cars. ... Vols., 32d and I02d U.S.C.T., and for the 25th Ohio Vols., the I07th Ohio Vols., I5th and 56th N.Y. vols., and the 4th Mass., and the 3d New York Artillery, and for General [Edward E.] ...

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The system of inequality begins with the winners, or the upper class white community, and the losers, the African American city of East St. ... When Kozol asked the students of Rye, New York whether racial integration should be put into effect for their school, one student replied, "How could it be a benefit to us?... The school environment, parents, teachers, and culture of the society all influence the behaviors and ideologies of the students of Rye, New York. ... Louis are obstructed by the social structures that hold them back from success, while the elite in towns like Rye, New York,...

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When rap music began, it was sang in the streets of New York. ... Rapping and beat boxing soon became a way to communicate with other communities about what was happening in the cities, and Hip Hop was something like "a black CNN". 1 It became somewhat of an underground phenomenon spreading all around the country. ... To add to the new phenomenon, a group called "The Beastie Boys" which consisted of three Jewish kids from New York had sprung onto the scene with party anthems. ... They helped represent some of New York's finest rappers and introduced such acts as LL Cool J, Public Enemy, ...

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These rappers are simply stating what went on in their everyday lives as they grew up in the ghetto of urban cities. ... Many of the successful rap artists that are now millionaires such as Jay-Z, Nas, 50 Cent and many others were raised in poverty stricken homes in the inner cities of New York. ... Look at them now, rich and successful because they rose above all the negativity in the ghettos of the city. ...

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In 1872, she and her son-in-law, Charles Owens, founded and financed the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles, the city's first African-American church. ... No one is quite sure where her Birthplace was; it could have been New York, Ohio, or New Jersey. ... She was appointed as a resident physician at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, which was a hospital owned and operated by women physicians, from 1972-1881. ... Cole practiced medicine in Columbia, South Carolina for a time and returned to Philadelphia to open an office in the South Philadelphia section ...

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Celebrating the Resurrection of the god Attis a vegetation god that was driven mad by the derange love of his mother had for him and went under a pine tree and cut his penis off, this day is referred to as "Roman laughing Day- There have been some great pranks Documented with notorious fame through time such as, In 1835 the New York Sun Proclaimed that British astronomer Sir John Herschel had by means of a new telescope of vast dimensions and had made outlandish discoveries through his observations of the ...

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