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It is said that, even at the present stage of Southern urbanization, such a city as Atlanta is not distinctly unlike Columbus or Trenton.
`` It's a whole lot easier '', he said, `` to increase the population of Nevada, than it is to increase the population of New York city ''.
One vocational instructor in a city vocational school, speaking of his course in a certain field, said he had no difficulty placing all students in jobs outside of the city.
`` Only a relative handful of such reports was received '', the jury said, `` considering the widespread interest in the election, the number of voters and the size of this city ''.
The City Purchasing Department, the jury said, `` is lacking in experienced clerical personnel as a result of city personnel policies ''.
Salinger said the work President Kennedy, advisers, and members of his staff were doing on the address involved composition and wording, rather than last minute decisions on administration plans to meet the latest Berlin crisis precipitated by Russia's demands and proposals for the city.
Mr. Hawksley said yesterday he would be willing to go before the city council `` or anyone else locally '' to outline his proposal at the earliest possible time.
Mr. Hawksley said he believed there are a number of qualified city residents who would be willing to take the full-time CD job.
One advantage that would come to the city in having a full-time director, he said, is that East Providence would become eligible to apply to the federal government for financial aid in purchasing equipment needed for a sound civil defense program.
Speaking of the present status of civil defense in the city, Mr. Hawksley said he would be willing to bet that not more than one person in a hundred would know what to do or where to go in the event of an enemy attack.
Mr. Hawksley said he was not critical of city residents for not knowing what to do or where to assemble in case of an air attack.
If the city council fails to consider appointment of a full-time CD director, Mr. Hawksley said, then he plans to call a meeting early in September so that a civil defense organization will be developed locally.
While the city council suggested that the Legislative Council might perform the review, Mr. Notte said that instead he will take up the matter with Atty. Gen. J. Joseph Nugent to get `` the benefit of his views ''.
Wagner said the city paid only $37,500 to the Hughes company.
In reply, Deputy Police Commissioner Howard R. Leary said that the city spends more than $115,000 annually to license and regulate dogs but collects only $43,000 in fees.
The city is not adequately compensated for the services covered by the fees, he said.
`` When they became members of the city police narcotics unit '', Sokol said, `` they were told they would have to get to know certain areas of Chicago in which narcotics were sold and they would have to get to know people in the narcotics racket.
The city sewer maintenance division said efforts will be made Sunday to clear a stoppage in a sewer connection at Eddy and Elm Streets responsible for dumping raw sewage into the Providence River.
It can be said of late phase mannerist painting in Florence, that the city that had early breathed life into statuary with the works of masters like Donatello and Michelangelo, was still so awed by them that it petrified the poses of figures in painting.
* Ephesos, a Lydian Amazon, after whom the city of Ephesus was thought to have been named ; she was also said to have been the first to honor Artemis and to have surnamed the goddess Ephesia.
* The city in the 1976 film Logan's Run is entirely self-contained for all resources, except power, which is said to be supplied by water moved by the tides.
It is said that Alameda has more pre-1906 earthquake era homes than any other city in the Bay Area.
But when he came upon the Bosporus he understood: on the opposite eastern shore was a Greek city, Chalcedon, whose founders were said to have overlooked the superior location only away.

city and waiting
One of the hardest chores a detective has is hanging around on a city street, trying to make himself inconspicuous, keeping an eye on the entrance of an office building and waiting.
Herald photographer Stanley Forman received two Pulitzer Prizes consecutively in 1976 and 1977, the first being a dramatic shot of a young child falling in mid-air from her mother's arms on the upper stories of a burning apartment building to the waiting arms of firefighters below, and the latter ( known as " The soiling of Old Glory ") being of Ted Landsmark, an African American city official, being beaten with an American flag during Boston's school busing crisis.
He then leaves the city and makes himself a shelter, waiting to see whether or not the city will be destroyed.
All Julian could do was sit it out in Naissus, the city of Constantine's birth, waiting for news and writing letters to various cities in Greece justifying his actions ( of which only the letter to the Athenians has survived in its entirety ).
The original document from 1377, which is kept in the Archives of Dubrovnik, states that before entering the city, newcomers had to spend 30 days ( a trentine ) in a restricted location ( originally nearby islands ) waiting to see whether the symptoms of Black death would develop.
" For Saladin, the capture of the city marked the end of over eight years of waiting since he told Farrukh-Shah " we have only to do the milking and Aleppo will be ours.
The city was waiting for the arrival of humans ; the contingency plan of a long dead civilization, put in place to take revenge upon humanity after their culture was wiped out with biological weapons by humans long before recorded history.
He appears to be waiting outside the walls of the ancient city of Cordoba in Alamgir Hashmi's poem In Cordoba.
A telephone call was made from the kitchen by Hermann Kriebel to Ernst Röhm, who was waiting with his Reichskriegsflagge in the Löwenbräukeller, another beer hall, and he was ordered to seize key buildings throughout the city.
At the beginning of Scene III, Oedipus is still waiting for the servant to be brought into the city, when a messenger arrives from Corinth to declare the King Polybus is dead.
Odysseus, some say, went by night to Troy, and leaving Diomedes waiting, disguised himself and entered the city as a beggar.
This reputation earned the city the derisive nickname of " God's waiting room ".
Louis wasn't overly worried by this ; he was very much focused on Amsterdam and, an early attempt to take the city by a sudden cavalry assault having failed, had decided in any case to avoid an expensive and inevitably very muddy siege by waiting till winter when he expected — reasonably so in the Little Ice Age — his troops to be able to advance over the ice.
While Althea was waiting to go into labor, Tibbs's friend from the Philadelphia police force is murdered and he heads up to the “ big cityto clear his friend's name, only to be arrested himself.
Dolley Madison hurried away in her waiting carriage, along with other families fleeing the city.
Ramp meters in Mississauga, Ontario are designed in such a way so that if the queue waiting to enter the QEW grows to the point where it may back up onto city streets, the meter is lifted and all traffic entering the highway is able to move freely without waiting for the meter.
While this method may increase congestion on the highway itself, it has the benefit of keeping city arterials free of stopped traffic waiting in queue.
The city has traditionally been a " marriage center " because of the short waiting time after blood tests and proximity to the Tennessee state line ; one testing laboratory in the community offers a combination test / wedding package and sells clocks with the inscription, " I got married in Ringgold, Ga ."
Because Crown Point had no waiting period for marriage licenses, the city became a popular place to get married and became known as the " Marriage Mill ".
Outside the outer bailey gate was an area known as the Gloverstone where criminals waiting for execution were handed over to the city authorities.
Contemptuously calling Pompey Sulla's pupil, Sertorius proved himself more than a match for his adversaries: he razed Lauron, a city allied to Rome, after a battle in which Pompey's forces were ambushed and defeated ; he nearly captured Pompey at the battle of Sucro when Pompey decided to fight Sertorius without waiting for Metellus Pius ; but was indecisively beaten at Saguntum.
Shabazz drifted from city to city and job to job, supporting herself by waiting tables, selling advertising for a directory, telemarketing, and proof-reading texts at a law firm.

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