Today, the city is a center for health care and several insurance companies.

Studies consistently rank Columbia as a top city in which to live for educational facilities, health care, technological savvy, economic growth, cultural opportunities and cost of living.

While raising Chicago, and at first improving the health of the city, the untreated sewage and industrial waste now flowed into the Chicago River, then into Lake Michigan, polluting the primary source of fresh water for the city.

In 2011, Dayton was rated the # 3 city in the nation out of the top 50 cities in the United States by HealthGrades for excellence in health care.

In Emesa he was apparently still alive and in good health: he issued the only extant rescript in his name there, but after he left the city, his staff, including the prefect Aper, reported that he suffered from an inflammation of the eyes.

There are many practical applications of ecology in conservation biology, wetland management, natural resource management ( agroecology, agriculture, forestry, agroforestry, fisheries ), city planning ( urban ecology ), community health, economics, basic and applied science, and human social interaction ( human ecology ).

Lupercalia was a very ancient, possibly pre-Roman pastoral festival, observed on February 13 through 15 to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility.

The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home to a large number of colleges and universities.

On August 31, 2010, eleven defendants were indicted on RICO charges for allegedly assisting AccessHealthSource, a local health care provider, in obtaining and maintaining lucrative contracts with local and state government entities in the city of El Paso, Texas, “ through bribery of and kickbacks to elected officials or himself and others, extortion under color of authority, fraudulent schemes and artifices, false pretenses, promises and representations and deprivation of the right of citizens to the honest services of their elected local officials ” ( see indictment ).

The United States is almost always the most dysfunctional of the developed democracies, sometimes spectacularly so ... The view of the U. S. as a " shining city on the hill " to the rest of the world is falsified when it comes to basic measures of societal health.

After the consolidation of the town itself and its adjacent communities in 1964, Molde became a modern city, encompassing most branches of employment, from farming and fisheries, through industrial production, to banking, higher education, tourism, commerce, health care, and civil administration.

After a series of economic setbacks, health problems, and prohibitions from the Tsar, the couple were finally able to wed. On 14 March 1850, with Balzac's health in serious decline, they drove from her estate in Wierzchownia ( village of Verkhivnia ) to a church in Berdyczów ( city of Berdychiv, today in Ukraine ) and were married.

Urbanization during the colonial period was marked by forms of racial and social segregation — often expressed in terms of health and hygiene — which continue to structure the city today.

The Court, like most Imperial Courts, was considered a reflection of the ruler at its center and Elizabeth was said to be “ the laziest, most extravagant and most amorous of sovereigns .” Elizabeth was intelligent but lacked the discipline and early education necessary to flourish as an intellectual ; she found the reading of secular literature to be “ injurious to health .” She kind and warm-hearted for the emotions sake alone, once going so far as to offer to finance the reconstruction of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake destroyed the Portuguese city despite having and wanting no diplomatic relationship with the nation.

In the non-residential area, 9. 3 % of the city consists of administrative buildings, 4 % of commercial establishments, 10. 1 % is taken up by health, educational or institutional structures, 2 % by industrial establishments and 3. 8 % by security.

He was raised in the upper class Rosedale district of the city, attending boarding school at St. Andrew's College ( although leaving during grade 10 for health reasons ).

The city is a centre for yoga-related health tourism that attracts domestic and foreign visitors.

Most of the rebels took refuge in Naples, which was besieged in July, but despite the poor health conditions within the city, Roger was not able to take it, and returned to Messina late in the year.

Deploring the rising death rate from contagious diseases in the poorest parts of the city, in January 1876, Chamberlain forcibly purchased Birmingham's waterworks for a combined sum of £ 1, 350, 000, creating Birmingham Corporation Water Department, having declared to a House of Commons Committee that ' We have not the slightest intention of making profit ... We shall get our profit indirectly in the comfort of the town and in the health of the inhabitants '.

Under this code, the county handled everything: elections, prisons, airports, public health and city planning.

In addition to Kitchener ’ s internationally-recognized finance and insurance and manufacturing clusters, digital media and health science clusters are emerging within the city.

Manufacturing accounts for the most ( 23. 8 %) employment in Franklin County, primarily in the city of Washington, followed by trade, transportation and utilities ( 18. 8 %), education and health care ( 17. 7 %), and construction ( 11. 3 %).

The farm was used as a short-term refuge and workplace for men who were victims of unemployment and sickness, until they were in better health or found work in the city.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

It is the capital and largest city of the region of Corsica and the prefecture of the department of Corse-du-Sud.

Bordeaux ( ; Gascon: Bordèu ; ) is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.

Bayonne (; Gascon and ) is a city and commune in south-western France at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, of which it is a sub-prefecture.

The city centre is also the location of large department stores, most notably Arnotts, Brown Thomas and Clerys.

By 1902, the factory alone became " A great city with its own streets, its own police force, fire department and traffic laws.

Lansing is administered under a mayor-council government, more specifically a " strong mayor " setup in which the mayor holds most of the city's administrative powers, such as appointment of department heads and drafting and administering a city budget, though the council must approve his / her actions.

Every party committee and party organizational department, from the all-union level in Moscow to the district and city levels, prepared two lists according to their needs.

In Copenhagen, Rømer made rules for building new houses, got the city's water supply and sewers back in order, ensured that the city's fire department got new and better equipment, and was the moving force behind the planning and making of new pavement in the streets and on the city squares.

Tours () is a city in central France, the capital of the Indre-et-Loire department.

A fax received at the Nassau County, Florida fire department was forwarded to police, and from there to all city departments.

The city has expanded to such an extent that by 1990 it covered most of the department.

* UCSF has its own fully functional police department, which carries out policing duties for its two major campuses as well as all satellite sites within the city and in South San Francisco.

that bring the streets of the capital city of the department of Suchitepéquez to life.

The departmental seat of government is called the prefecture ( préfecture ) or chef-lieu de department and is generally a city of some importance roughly at the geographical centre of the department.

The prefecture is not necessarily the largest city in the department ; for instance, in Saône-et-Loire department the capital is Mâcon, but the largest city is Chalon-sur-Saône.

Paris, the country ’ s capital city, is a commune as well as a department.

Perpignan (, ) is a city, a commune and the capital of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

Schools, restaurants and department stores were segregated ; no African Americans were hired to work in the stores where they shopped or in the city government supported in part by their taxes.

It is located in the western part of the country in the department of the same name at an elevation of roughly ( the city is built on steep hills ) above sea level, making it the world's highest de facto capital city, or administrative capital, with Quito being the highest legal capital.