New York's crime rate withered when he ran its police force in the mid-1990s, and Los Angeles has become more law-abiding ever since he arrived in 2002.

他在90年代中期主管纽约警察事务时，纽约的犯罪率下降，而自从他2002年来到洛杉矶，洛杉矶比以往任何时候都守法。

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The unemployment rate in Los Angeles is 13 percent.

洛杉矶的失业率达到13%。

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The New York City region's rate of growth was just one-fifth that of Dallas or Houston, while Los Angeles barely reached one-third the level of the Texas cities.

纽约地区的人口增长率仅为达拉斯或休斯顿的五分之一，而洛杉矶甚至还不及德克萨斯州平均增长率的三分之一。

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His team explored these risks in a 2009 study -- and found that for both men and women, the rate of cardiac deaths in Los Angeles increased following the city's Super Bowl defeat in 1980.

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Yet over the past decade, the number of people with bachelor's degrees grew by a remarkable 50% in Austin and Charlotte and by over 30% in Tampa, Houston, Dallas and Atlanta a far greater percentage growth rate than in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago or New York.

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The jump in costs is most dramatic in cities such as Los Angeles, New York and Miami, where the rate of appreciation has far outpaced the national average.

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