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In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power. -- Meles Zenawi
Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information. -- Nancy Pearcey
I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates. -- Ron Wyden
We will primarily focus on affordable housing, water supply and transport infrastructure, as these are critical for Mumbai. Infrastructure deficit is an issue in all urban areas. -- Sharad Pawar
Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas. -- Ian Smith
We must do all we can to reduce congestion in our urban areas and increase access and mobility in our rural areas, and this extra funding will help us get there. -- John Warner
I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids. -- Jeremy Lin
Meth is a major problem not only in our urban areas, but in most of the rural areas of Colorado. No region has been immune from this scourge and it is getting larger. -- Ken Salazar
However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today. -- Bob Filner
Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today. -- Jonathan Kozol
We're creating these massive urban areas in the Third World. It's like you take the entire population of California and put it in one city. Then you remove basic sanitation and medical services, and you have a ticking biological time bomb. -- Richard Preston
I think the guys who are sort of infantry in Somali piracy are not unlike low-level drug dealers in urban areas in America, who see it as, you know, not having many other options. I think it comes down to money and needing to survive. -- Cutter Hodierne
The majority of small-holder farmers in Africa are women and, in urban areas, you're primarily looking at women-led households. So we can't solve hunger if we don't have gender-sensitive programming that addresses access to opportunities for women, whether it's through education or tools for cooking, like solar-powered stoves. -- Ertharin Cousin
Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations. -- Sherman Alexie
By 2050, seven out of ten people will live in cities, which will account for six billion people living in urban areas. That phenomenon is central to all the challenges humanity faces. If there is an issue to be addressed, then it is certainly happening in cities and therefore must be considered on an urban scale. -- Eduardo Paes
Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas. -- Thomas E. Mann
Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information -- Nancy Pearcey
Where people are using phones in rural areas their risk of brain cancer is higher than in urban areas. -- Devra Davis
Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities -- Chuck Grassley
We think all over this country we need to rebuild everything from transit, fiber optic broadband in our rural areas and urban areas. -- Keith Ellison
North Carolina is a fascinating state, because you've got these urban areas. You've got the Piedmont Triangle - Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point. -- Julianne Malveaux
Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs. -- Wendy Kopp
We want to bring enterprise back to blighted urban areas. People there have been told nothing is ever going to change. The policy makers may feel the same way. -- Majora Carter
Quite frankly, the Urban brand organization became too siloed, with too little communication across functional areas. The great creativity that has been the hallmark of our success became stifled. -- Richard Hayne
Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum. -- Bunker Roy

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