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Examples
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That was part of what interested me in doing the story of small-city corruption.
Scouring the Headlines, Law & Order: LA Takes on Two Big L.A. Scandals 2011
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The last week was a tougher test for Mr. Malloy, a former small-city mayor who's hovered on the periphery of the national stage.
3 Governors, 3 Strategies In Flood Fight Jacob Gershman 2011
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Pittsburgh has been called the ‘best city to live’ in America, in terms of its balance between a decent number of big-city amenities, along with a small-city cost of living.
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His sobriety slip-ups, including a bar fight, have been documented in a police report and a YouTube video, making this small-city mayor the butt of late-night television jokes and international news coverage.
Alcoholic Mayor Wants Another Chance Douglas Belkin 2011
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TUCSON The arena at the University of Arizona filled Wednesday with every walk of Tucson life — police officers and sheriff's deputies, city managers and firefighters, judges and priests, students and senior citizens — all looking to regain the feeling of small-city security lost in a barrage of bullets Saturday.
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After years of watching McDonald's commercials on Indian television, small-city consumers are familiar with the menu, he said, though they don't always understand that you have to line up to order food.
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A while back, a small-city newspaper in the Northeast dropped the Doonesbury comic strip over its use of the term “knocked up”.
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For example, I have spent most of the past 2 years living in Missouri, where barring some small pockets of Democrats the state is pretty much defined by the Democratic large cities (St. Louis, Kansas City, and to a lesser extent, Columbia) and rural and small-city Republican areas (everywhere else).
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"There's just not enough rural folks and small-city people left in America."
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"There's just not enough rural folks and small-city people left in America."
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