91. Gonzalez and other religious retailers are expanding or opening new religious bookstores throughout the city as San Antonio mirrors a national trend and moves toward conservatism. 92. He cited surveys showing Boston consistently ranked fourth among cities as preferred convention sites, after New Orleans, San Francisco and Chicago. 93. Growing mostly by acquisitions, iXL has bought similar companies in such cities as New York, Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle. 94. He has been employed by the Excelsior Granite company for some years and was well-known in this city as an expert carver and letter cutter. 95. He has been looking for work with the city as a crossing guard or maintenance worker. 96. He told the country, with vast numbers of people fleeing the major cities as refugees, that the threat of war had diminished and they should return home. 97. He took pride in coming to the inner workings of the city as an outsider unwise to the way of political patronage. 98. He sponsored studies on technology, encouraged peasants to cultivate their own plots of land, and opened certain cities as special economic zones with market incentives and freedoms. 99. He is as at home in the city as the jungle. 100. He saw the city as an adventure, but lamented the lack of tennis courts. |