The job listings are raw numbers, so the cities with larger populations have an advantage over smaller cities.

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This bureaucracy is charged with the job of securing supplies of raw materials so Chinese industry can keep humming--and paying otherwise restless workers.

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Twenty years ago, chucking a Forbes 500 top job like Shaheen's for a raw California startup was on a par with telling your board you were quitting to join a nudist colony.

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If Mr Mesa survives to 2007, a vital part of his job will be to help supply Bolivia with the missing raw materials of democracy.

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But the outbreak of the financial crisis and the growing energy and raw materials demand from fast-growing economies had put rising prices back on the agenda and complicated the job of a central bank.

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