Does each tentacle of the octopus of City Government reach out and lash at whatever it dislikes or considers an annoyance??

The movie, which is influenced by Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, centers around two Mexicans who are mistaken for government inspectors from Mexico City by the corrupt mayor of a small town.

On 22 September 1948, towards the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the All-Palestine Government was proclaimed in the Egyptian occupied Gaza City by the Arab League.

Upon the approval of the 1969 Constitution and the dissolution of the City Council, the telephone service was transferred to the newly formed Government of Gibraltar.

Greater London was formally created by the London Government Act 1963, which took force on 1 April 1965, replacing the former administrative counties of Middlesex and London, adding the City of London, which was not under the London County Council, and absorbing parts of Kent, Surrey, Essex and Hertfordshire.

A small part in the north-west is located in the Local Government Area of the City of Holroyd.

Most city wide events such as the Taste of Tasmania and Hobart Summer Festival are funded by the Tasmanian State Government as a joint venture with the Hobart City Council.

The Mayor of Kabul Muhammad Yunus Nawandish has brought many municipal reform efforts by the U. S. Agency for International Development ’ s “ Kabul City Initiative ” project, the World Bank, Japanese Government JICA and other International Donors to build municipal capacity, improve service delivery and infrastructure, and increase municipal revenue for a cleaner and greener Kabul.

Again in 2011, City District Government of Karachi has been de-merged into its five original constituent districts namely Karachi East, Karachi West, Karachi Central, Karachi South and Malir.

Earlier in the year left-wing councils had protested at Government restriction of their budgets by refusing to set budgets, resulting in a budget crisis in Militant-dominated Liverpool City Council.

* City of Portland ( Victoria ), former Local Government Area ( LGA )

Askin, along with his Minister for Local Government, Pat Morton, oversaw the rapid escalation of building development in inner-city Sydney and the central business district, which followed in the wake of his controversial 1967 abolition of Sydney City Council and a redistribution of municipal electoral boundaries that was aimed at reducing the power of the rival Australian Labor Party.

* May 24 – Mexican Revolution: Government troops fire at anti-Diaz demonstrators in Mexico City, killing about 200 ( officials claim only 40 ).

This is the case in the City and County of San Francisco, CA, and in the City and County of Philadelphia, PA. A similar arrangement is found in the " Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County " where the metropolis of Nashville has merged into the county of Davidson ( but, other than Nashville, a few municipalities-such as Belle Meade-still exist with some administrative functions ).

* New York City Government with links to Manhattan specific agencies

Secretary Rusk stressed to the Government of Israel that no settlement with Jordan would be accepted by the world community unless it gave Jordan some special position in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Between the abbey and the river he built a palace, thereby guaranteeing that the seat of Government would be fixed at Westminster, and inevitably drawing power and wealth west out of the old City of London.

The neighborhood around it, Hell's Kitchen, has also become known as Clinton, or the Special Clinton District ( a City Government preservation zone ) in recent years.

Castries has landmarks, such as the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Derek Walcott Square ( renamed from Columbus Square to honor the island's Nobel Prize-winning poet, Derek Walcott ), the City Library, the Government House, and Fort Charlotte, at the top of Morne Fortune ( an 845-foot hill ).

* City of Belmont, a Local Government Area in Western Australia

The Cathedral of St. Florin, Government House and City Hall are also well-known landmarks, displaying the various styles and periods of architecture that the city is known for.

It is located wholly within the boundaries of the City of Albury Local Government Area.

The city government, originally housed in the old Municipal Building on Collier Street ( now the Grand Royale Hotel ), is now based at the Binghamton City Hall which occupies the west-wing of Government Plaza on the corner of State and Hawley streets.

Lawmaking power is removed from the Board of Estimate and made a partnership responsibility of the City Council and the Mayor.

The Inter-american Press Association, which blankets the Western Hemisphere from northern Canada to Cape Horn, is meeting in New York City this week for the first time in eleven years.

As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

This is an official preliminary contest of the Miss America Pageant held each September in Atlantic City.

A new waterfront site for the bureau is now being built at Atlantic City, New Jersey, to provide the most modern marine testing facilities as a further tool to keep the sport safe.

Another scenic spot in Tennessee is Chattanooga where the Rock City Gardens are not to be missed.

Sixty miles north of New York City where the wooded hills of Dutchess County meet the broad sweep of the Hudson River there is a new home development called `` Oakwood Heights ''.

Its president is Otis M. Waters, partner in the law firm of Timen & Waters, 540-K Chrysler Bldg., New York City.

You will realize why Rome is indeed the Eternal City.

The City Purchasing Department, the jury said, `` is lacking in experienced clerical personnel as a result of city personnel policies ''.

`` Actually, the abuse of the process may have constituted a contempt of the Criminal court of Cook county, altho vindication of the authority of that court is not the function of this court '', said Karns, who is a City judge in East St. Louis sitting in Cook County court.

In Nassau County, for example, the heavily settled Long Island suburb of New York City, the system is credited by the state with serving one million persons, a figure that has doubled since 1950.

Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.

Alfonso Cuarón was born in México City and is the son of Alfredo Cuarón, a nuclear physicist who worked for the United Nations ' International Atomic Energy Agency for many years.

On flowing out of the lake it passes through Thun, and then flows through the city of Bern, passing beneath eighteen bridges and around the steeply-flanked peninsula on which the Old City is located.

* 1519 – Panama City, Panama, is founded.

NYSE MKT LLC, formerly known as the American Stock Exchange ( AMEX ), is an American stock exchange situated in New York City, New York.

* 1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.

* 1896 – Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin ( Quezon City ), in the province of Manila ( actual date and location is disputed ).

Andronikos is the main protagonist in Michael Arnold's Against the Fall of Night ( Garden City, New York: Doubleday 1975 ), as well as Ange Vlachos ' Their Most Serene Majesties ( Vanguard Press, 1964 ).

* 1922 – The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.