In 1788, New York was declared the first federal capital of the United States.
Reminder: My family lives in North Carolina, not exactly the wrestling capital of the United States.
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The top two recipients are the senators from New York, the financial capital of the United States.
If India is the yoga capital of the world, California is the yoga capital of the United States.
Last fall, the AAFA named it the allergy capital of the United States.
New Orleans is the murder capital of the United States, according to the report, which ranked the city 17th on the list.
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Boston, Massachusetts -- affectionately called Beantown -- is the unofficial student capital of the United States, with the greater Boston area containing some of the most distinguished universities in the world, including Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
In conclusion, we believe there a number steps you can initiate in your states while properly avoiding capital controls, undue government intervention or other measurers which could impede the free flow of capital into or out of the United States.
While the Casey Institute has consistently opposed capital controls, undue government intervention and other measures which could impede the free flow of capital into and out of the United States, we believe that the Congress must engage in an urgent fact-finding initiative concerning this important new issue area.
There is no question that the free flow of capital into and out of the United States is a crucial pillar of this nation's global competitiveness and leadership.
The witnesses emphasized that S. 1315 contemplated simply additional reporting requirements, so as to avoid creating unwarranted impediments to the free flow of capital into and out of the United States.
The latter corrections can, and must, be accomplished without impeding the free flow of capital into and out of the United States or precipitating undue government intervention in our highly successful -- and delicate -- markets.
Arguably, the least disruptive approach -- which would not impede the free flow of capital into and out of the United States and minimize the need for government intervention -- would be the voluntary adoption of new security- and human rights-minded "due diligence" by U.S. investment banks and fund managers, including those in California.
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Naturally, it is important that such steps do not smack of "capital controls" or other draconian measures that could cast a shadow over our common desire to preserve the free flow of private capital into and out of the United States.
"We have no interest in creating capital controls or implementing other broad measures that could damage the competitiveness and attractiveness of the U.S. capital markets, " according to Bachus, who says he and Kucinich seek to preserve the free flow of foreign capital into and out of the United States.
In an era of global capital mobility, the United States faces increasing competition for retaining and attracting industries of the future and the jobs they create.
At the same time, and despite their recent growth and globalisation, the economies of Latin America depend on the far bigger one of the United States for capital, know-how, technology and remittances.
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According to a 2004 study by the Center on Wrongful Convictions, at Northwestern University Law School, lying police and jailhouse informants are the leading cause of wrongful convictions in capital cases in the United States.
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Defying the trend in the rest of the United States, Californians have kept their energy consumption per capital at about the same level since 1974, according to the Washington Post.
In terms of its capital markets, China finds itself in the same situation that the United States did at the beginning of the 1980s.
This growing flow of capital from India reflects the increased integration of the two economies and has brought many benefits to the United States, increasing U.S. exports and supporting tens of thousands of jobs in the last six years alone.
Less than 100 years later, the United States was the invention capital of the world, patenting inventions at three times the rate of Britain on a per capita basis.
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It is likely that lower taxes would also stimulate increases in research and development and other inventive activities, increase entrepreneurship, increase the accumulation of human capital, lead to more immigration of high-skilled workers, and encourage foreign firms to locate in the United States.
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With a return on invested capital over 22%, it is one of the most profitable companies in the United States.
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And it would mean that much of the United States, from Los Angeles to Kansas to the nation's capital, would feel like an unbearable oven in the summer.
Before arriving in the United States a decade ago, the brothers lived briefly in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, a neighboring, violence-wracked Russian province where their father resides.
The United States is also unique in the scale on which it attracts human capital: of the 314 laureates who won their Nobel prize while working in the U.S., 102 (or 32%) were foreign born, including 15 Germans, 12 Canadians, 10 British, six Russians and six Chinese (twice as many as have received the award while working in China).
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The January 2010 earthquake that devastated the capital, Port au Prince, and surrounding communities did not result in an immediate wave of mass migration to the United States, as some had feared.
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