• Angelenos tend to be intensely loyal to their own neighbourhoods but indifferent to the surrounding megalopolis.

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  • In this steamy, frantic, uglybeautiful, often malodorous megalopolis, the people know how to live.

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  • But another Disney bequest may succeed in reconnecting the school to the neighbouring megalopolis.

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  • But this megalopolis of almost nine million people has far more to show than Diego Rivera murals and Aztec totems.

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  • LA's future lies in burying its Manhattan complex and concentrating on becoming the world's greatest multi-headed megalopolis.

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  • He also traveled to the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, which has imported tens of thousands of workers to build its burgeoning megalopolis.

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  • Babe, the extraordinarily polite pig with the sweetly persistent manner, tries to raise money in the great megalopolis for the ailing Hoggett farm.

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  • He drew a fanatical following, mainly among the disadvantaged of this megalopolis, for his colorful policies, like giving a stipend to retiring prostitutes.

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  • Toru Hashimoto, governor of Osaka prefecture, Japan's second-biggest industrial hub, is campaigning on a promise to build a similar megalopolis, though against opposition from local mayors.

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  • Asahara Shokou faces murder charges, but Tokyo's pulsing megalopolis of 11.6 million people still wonders whether it could assuredly guard against a well-planned act of mass terrorism.

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  • The daughter of a sugar cane and orange grower, Niemeyer is a native of Santos, a port city that rubs shoulders with Brazil's industrial megalopolis, Sao Paulo.

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  • Managing a seething megalopolis is difficult enough, without having to cope with a city council that has learned even less since the 1960s than Tom Hayden has.

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  • Mumbai, the fourth-largest city in the world, is home to 20 million people and fans out along the coast of the Arabian Sea as an ever-growing megalopolis.

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  • They also captured the worn-to-the-bone look of Mega-City One, a future megalopolis that has more in common with New York City during its Fort Apache: The Bronx days than the cyberpunk future of Blade Runner.

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  • The sting took place in a dingy residential district of five-story apartment blocks on the outskirts of Dongguan, a city that is part of the Pearl River megalopolis extending from nearby Guangzhou to Hong Kong, 60 miles away.

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  • To put it yet another way, coastal Californians would have to live cheek-by-jowl as Japanese people in the megalopolis that stretches from Tokyo to Osaka do to have any chance of a high-speed rail service that offered at least half a dozen trains an hour and did not require huge tax-payer subsidies.

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