Kirk served as head of the country's ninth-largest city from 1995 to 2001.
Just 10 years ago, Singapore, now the ninth most expensive city, according to the survey, was 2% cheaper than New York.
The Venezuelan city of Caracas rose 25 places to ninth, making it the most expensive city across the Americas.
Specialty coffee shops, most java aficionados agree, debuted in New York in 2001 with Ken Nye's Ninth Street Espresso in Alphabet City.
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Still says his client is now ready to return to the club game in England, where he led Manchester City to a ninth-place finish in 2008 before being sacked after just a year in charge.
Within this context, many Americans -- including residents of Atlanta, the ninth "gayest" American city in 2012, according The Advocate magazine -- have chosen either to enjoy Chick-fil-A's sandwich variations or to not patronize the restaurant because of its values.
Munn, of New York City, was a ninth-grader at Hotchkiss when she joined a school-supervised trip to China during the summer of 2007, according to her lawsuit.
In the last five years, the UK has hosted more than 120 world and European status events, and Glasgow is now ranked ninth in the SportBusiness Ultimate Sports City table.
"Toward the Low Sun" (Drag City) is the ninth album by the instrumental group Dirty Three , which dispenses with equal efficacy sentimental folk ballads, free-flowing rock and downtown free jazz, resulting in tender beauty and raucous clatter.
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Community activists have sued to keep the city from bulldozing in the Lower Ninth Ward.
Mr. Koh owned eight properties in the city before closing last week on a ninth apartment.
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Before the meeting, Obama toured the Martin Luther King charter school -- the first charter school to reopen in New Orleans' Ninth Ward, the hardest-hit portion of the city.
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At People's Ninth Hospital in Shanghai, a public hospital that is the city's busiest for cosmetic surgery, there were 50, 000 cosmetic operations in 2011, a 50% increase in five years, according to Qi Zuoliang, deputy director of the plastic-surgery department.
This neighborhood on Ninth Avenue is nowhere near as hard hit as parts of the city nearer to water.
For example, our local co-working space, The Grove, received assistance through Project Storefronts, a city economic development program to help boost the vitality of the Ninth Square neighborhood.
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The former Manchester City man made amends in the most spectacular style possible in the ninth minute.
So popular was the maqom system in the ninth and tenth centuries that numerous music schools were founded, mainly by the Jewish community, in the city of Bukhara, the historical and spiritual centre of Shashmaqom.
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