The firm employs 6,000 staff at its European headquarters in Cork, a significant proportion of the area's 200,000 strong metropolitan population.
For some years she compared police forces in the town of Speedway and the city of Indianapolis, finding that forces of 25-50 officers performed better by almost every measure than 100-strong metropolitan teams.
Ed Tonnessen, executive vice president of the Albert Ashforth Company, also noted that trying to lure companies away from New York City would be detrimental over the long term to the suburbs, because the suburbs by nature rely heavily on a strong metropolitan area.
Three vociferously anti-Kremlin candidates, including the scourge of the ruling party, Alexei Navalny, have suddenly found themselves in an unusual position: on the ballot sheet, on the stump and gathering enough support to show that antipathy for Putin and his party of power remains strong, in metropolitan Russia at least.
The deal, the 11th announced this year by BB&T, gives it a stronger presence in metropolitan Atlanta, Savannah and Macon, Ga., and in areas of Tennessee and Alabama.
For foreign physicians, the importance of more demand-related variables - such as hospital beds and presence of foreign population – as well as their stronger presence outside metropolitan areas, may be interpreted as a more pronounced dependency of foreign physicians on public sector employment opportunities, as well as a lesser access to premium locations.
The coefficients of Factor 1 are the strongest near the metropolitan areas of Chengdu, Deyang, and Mianyang (Fig. 6d).
Still, new-buyer activity may be stronger in the New York metropolitan area than national surveys suggest.
"Cass appealed to me because it was a European school with a strong reputation in a metropolitan area.
Even as the real estate market remains strong in the New York metropolitan region and across the country -- in fact, national sales of existing homes are on track to make this year the second-best year ever, surpassing last year -- some housing observers point to a hairline fracture in the foundation: mortgage delinquencies and foreclosure rates have risen slightly.
