#metropolitan

That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#atlanta #california #competing #development #done

My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school. ↗

— Douglass North

#boy #company #completed #even #father

When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco. ↗

— Douglass North

#been #came #coast #college #company

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#advertising agencies #agencies #business #cannot #deaf

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#america #areas #been #belong #chaos

I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#area #attend #child #district #each

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan. ↗

— George Osborne

#come #i #metropolitan #tory #traditional

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#impersonal #integration #into #life #metropolitan

After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance. ↗

— Steve Israel

#area #availability #businesses #district #firsthand

That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#auditioned #back #because #center #come