" 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 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.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

It is said that, even at the present stage of Southern urbanization, such a city as Atlanta is not distinctly unlike Columbus or Trenton.

The thousands of city migrants who desert the farms yearly must readjust with even greater stress and tension: the sacred wilderness is gradually surrendering to suburbs and research parks and industrial areas.

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

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.

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.

But it would greatly strengthen any Mayor's executive powers, remove the excuse in large degree that he is a captive of inaction in the Board of Estimate, increase his budget-making authority both as to expense and capital budgets, and vest in him the right to reorganize city departments in the interest of efficiency and economy.

A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.

`` 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 ''.

This is our duty -- not as nurses or city employes -- but as citizens of the United States.

It is visible throughout the city, and men from Madison Ave. would jump at the chance.

If an atom bomb in 1945 could destroy an entire city surely the atomic arsenal we now have is more than adequate to fulfill any military objective required of it.

Or the city can be a graveyard monument to Western intransigence, if that is what the West wants.

The Lenin tomb is obviously adequate for double occupancy, Moscow is a crowded city, and the creed of Communism deplores waste.

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.

Warsaw is my city, not Tel Aviv ''.

It should be kept in mind that the ease or difficulty with which a town or city can convert to the proposed plan is directly dependent upon the financial condition of that town or city.

The problem for the city apartment dweller is primarily to plan the use of existing space.

One of the most delightful spots in a southern tour is the city of New Orleans.

Just after sunset is a good time to record the city lights in color since you get a `` fill-in '' light from the sky.

Even when they are finished, however, the contrast will remain, for Istanbul is the only city in the world that is built upon two continents.

In 1529-1530 he was also charged with reinforcing certain city fortifications in response to the Turkish threat.

In 1926, in response to the growth in population of the city, the New York State legislature created the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York to integrate, coordinate and expand the institutions of higher education in the city.

* 2004 – The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.

In 1877, in response to a public petition, Queen Victoria issued the second royal charter, which granted city status to the borough and Cathedral status to the former Abbey Church.

A new format for a full-size, city centre store was introduced with the opening of the Coventry ( UK ) store in December 2007 as a response to UK government restrictions blocking retail establishment outside city centres ,.

Moreover, General Thomas Ewing, in response to a successful raid on nearby Lawrence, Kansas, led by William Quantrill, issued General Order No. 11, forcing the eviction of residents in four western Missouri counties — including Jackson — except those living in the city and nearby communities and those whose allegiance to the Union was certified by Ewing.

According to the accident report released by the city of Midland in 2000, in response to an open-records request, she was not charged in the incident.

Another was the response to the Athenians when the vast army of king Xerxes I was approaching Athens with the intent of razing the city to the ground.

In 1998, presumably as a response to the 1993 construction of a tower in Paris, Tennessee, the city placed a giant red cowboy hat atop the tower.

The war also developed a weariness in the city, owing to a lack of food in response to the disruption of agriculture.

In response to allegations that Michigan's militia fired upon Ohioans, Lucas called a special session of Ohio's Legislature on June 8, 1835 to pass several more controversial acts, including establishment of Toledo as the county seat of Lucas County, the establishment of a Court of Common Pleas in the city, a law to prevent the forcible abduction of Ohio citizens from the area and a budget of $ 300, 000 to implement the legislation.

In response to this threat, Königsegg retreated into the Bishopric of Trent, but leaving the fortress city of Mantua well-defended.

This was a response to counter-Revolutionary activities in Lyon which, by population, was the country's second largest city.

Also, in apparent response to Lombard raids, Leo transferred the relics of a number of martyrs from the catacombs to churches inside the walls of the city.

In February 2011, a major earthquake in Christchurch, the nation's second largest city, significantly impacted the national economy and the government formed the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority in response.

When the city council appealed to him to rescind that order, on the grounds that it would cause great hardship to women, children, the elderly, and others who bore no responsibility for the conduct of the war, Sherman sent a written response in which he sought to articulate his conviction that a lasting peace would be possible only if the Union were restored, and that he was therefore prepared to do all he could do to quash the rebellion:

Having not seen any reaction from the Spanish, the 18th Vernon bombards ordered three open fire on the city, with the intention of provoking a response that he might get an idea of the defensive capacity of the Spanish.

The recording was eventually broadcast on Pat Dixon's Mirror of the Month programme and after receiving a good response led to another sketch in which Unwin was interviewed as a man from Atlantis being asked about life in the sunken city.

In such a case, an overwhelming nuclear response would destroy every enemy city and thus every potential hostage which could be used to influence the attacker's behavior.

As the city grew and prospered, a faster response to the high demand for consumer goods and arts was necessary.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the city of New Orleans on August 29, 2005, Prince offered a personal response by recording two new songs, " S. S. T.

In 1970, Kamiakin High School ( in the neighboring city of Kennewick ) was founded in response to the continued influx of people.