Newton Is a City of 400 Thousand.

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We don't have any evidence that they work. They haven't been used at such a scale as to really make a difference. Newton, as craig armstrong noted earlier, has doled out a hundred grants. Talsa has given 17 hundred. In a city of 400 thousand. The fundamentals of what a city offers are far and above more important than any incentive programme. And those are the basics that have always mattered and will always matter. What's the climate? What's the cost of living? What're the qualityof schools? What is crime like?

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