" They sent Barry Bernardi, their location manager ( and associate producer ), " on a sort of all-expense-paid trip across the country looking for the worst city in America ," producer Debra Hill remembers.

The team has played at several stadiums in the city, beginning with Recreation Park and continuing at Baker Bowl ; Shibe Park, which was later renamed Connie Mack Stadium in honor of the longtime Philadelphia Athletics manager ; Veterans Stadium ; and now Citizens Bank Park.

The first working prototype of the modern self-propelled torpedo was created by a commission placed by Giovanni Luppis (), an Austrian naval officer from Fiume ( now called Rijeka ), a port city of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy ( modern Croatia ), and Robert Whitehead, an English engineer who was the manager of a town factory.

The city manager is a response to the increasing complexity of urban problems that need management ability not often possessed by elected public officials.

The answer has been to entrust most of the executive powers, including law enforcement and provision of services, to a highly trained and experienced professional city manager.

The city manager plan has been adopted by a large number of cities.

Under this plan, a small, elected council makes the city ordinances and sets policy, but hires a paid administrator, also called a city manager, to carry out its decisions.

The manager draws up the city budget and supervises most of the departments.

Each board has a paid district manager who acts as an interlocutor with city agencies.

Mikko Pukkinen, the former city manager of Seinäjoki, has been the city manager of Turku since 2006.

It is governed by an elected mayor and six elected councilmembers, who form the city council, and an appointed city manager, under a council-manager style of government.

Galveston's city council serves as the city's legislative branch, while the city manager works as the chief executive officer and the municipal court system serves as the city's judicial branch.

The city council appoints the city manager, the city secretary, the city auditor, the city attorney, and the municipal judge.

The city manager hires employees, promotes development, presents and administers the budget, and implements city council policies.

There has probably always been a bridge of some sort at the southeastern corner of the city.

I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.

It is remembered and has been commemorated by a bust in a park and a square in the city which was renamed Piazzo Lauro Di Bosis after the war.

The inference has been too widely accepted that because the Communists have succeeded in building barricades across Berlin the free world must acquiesce in dismemberment of that living city.

Falling somewhere in a category between Einstein's theory and sand fleas -- difficult to see but undeniably there, nevertheless -- is the tropical green `` city '' of Islandia, a string of offshore islands that has almost no residents, limited access and an unlimited future.

The city has a stake in stimulating growth and purchasing power throughout outstate Missouri and Southern Illinois.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

When a city has arranged things like this you cannot easily change them.

If the distant patron of the suburban branch has been frightened away from downtown by traffic problems, however, the city store can only pressure the politicians to do something about the highways or await the completion of the federal highway program.

`` For three days now a German reconnaissance plane has been over the city taking pictures.

Land within commuting distance of a growing city is usually high in price, higher if it has subdivision possibilities.

`` Washington '', President Kennedy has been heard to remark ironically, `` is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm ''.

In the city, he said, the waiting list for those who want to join the union is so long that unless a boy has an inside track he can't get in.

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.

Mr. Hawksley, the state's general treasurer, has been a part-time CD director in the city for the last nine years.

These contend there is a serious question as to whether Mr. Wagner has the confidence of the Democratic rank and file in the city.

The city has sued for the full amount of the $172,400 performance bond covering the contract.

Gladden has been an outspoken critic of the present city administration and led his union's battle against the teamsters, which began organizing city firemen in 1959.

Mrs. Mary Self, who knows more than any other person about the 5,000 city employes for whom she has kept personnel records over the years, has closed her desk and retired.

A startlingly high percentage do not exceed $500 annually, which includes the librarian's salary, and not even the New York Public has enough money to meet its needs -- this in the world's richest city.

Practically everybody in Berlin has relatives and friends that live in the opposite part of the city.

As soon as the fox has taken hold on most of the populace he imports more wharf rats, who, of course, say they are the aggrieved victims of an extermination campaign in the city.

In describing the initial Allied occupation of a middle-sized German city, the picture has color, pictorial pull and genuinely moving moments.

We had assumed that at least this local legislative body had nothing to hide, and, therefore, had no objections to making the deliberations of its committees and the city commissions available to the public.

The doctor sat down rather wearily, caressing the hen and remarking that the city was not the place for a poultry-loving man, but no sooner was the remark out than a knock at this door obliged him to cover the hen with his greatcoat once more.

From proud pool-owners to perpetual hosts and handymen was a short step -- no more than the change from city clothes to trunks.

Extraordinary precautions were taken so that no stranger be allowed in the city and no citizen within the enclosure surrounding the scaffold.

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.

The city paid for work on 75, of which no more than 21 were repaired, Hemphill charged.

Moreover, for those few there was almost no ecclesiastical representation in the city to care for their religious needs.

When the plague strikes, he finds himself trapped in a city with which he feels he has no connection.

While the emperor's palace no longer exists, the church built by Charlemagne is still the main attraction of the city.

Anna was highly successful in three important aspects of the revolt: she bought time for her sons to steal imperial horses from the stables and escape the city, she distracted the emperor and gave her sons time to gather and arm their troops and she gave a false sense of security to Botaneiates that there was no real treasonous coup against him.

* 1690 – Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city ( in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city has no birthday ).

Though there was no Bronze Age city on the site, archaeology has detected human activity that is evident from the earliest Iron Age, circa 1100 BC.

The city of Jericho was taken with no more than a shout after the Ark of the Covenant was paraded for seven days around its wall by seven priests sounding seven trumpets of rams ' horns ( Josh.

* Eponymous city of Inganock from Seiken no Inganock: What a Beautiful People is stated to be the first and only successful arcology in its setting.

Insofar as it carried railroad trains under a city street, some have claimed it be the world's first subway tunnel, though, unlike a modern rapid transit subway, it had no stations.

Of special historical interest is the observation of Abbahu in regard to the benediction " Baruk Shem Kebod Malkuto " ( Blessed be the Name of His glorious Kingdom ) after the " Shema ' Yisrael ," that in Palestine, where the Christians look for points of controversy, the words should be recited aloud ( lest the Jews be accused of tampering with the unity of God proclaimed in the Shema '), whereas in the Babylonian city of Nehardea, where there are no Christians, the words are recited with a low voice ( Pesahim 56a ).

She wished for no city dedicated to her, but to rule the mountains, and for the ability to help women in the pains of childbirth.

The one New Testament reference to the city of Armageddon found in Revelation 16: 16 in fact also makes no specific mention of any armies being predicted to one day gather in this city, but instead seems to predict only that " they ( will gather ) the kings together to .... Armageddon.

The 35-match tour of two host nations included no tests, but the side played provincial, city and academic sides, winning 27 matches.