We have now a quiet city, fewer automobiles, less congestion, and fewer retail customers shopping in center city.

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.

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.

Only a radical change in the nature of the population in the central city would be likely to destroy this preference -- and we must now turn our attention to the question of whether such a change, gloomily foreseen by so many urban diagnosticians, is actually upon us.

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

There were lights glinting in the city, too, even though it was now dark enough for a few stars to become visible.

For the convenience of guests bundle centers have been established throughout the city and suburbs where the donations may be deposited between now and the date of the big event.

Memphis stinkpotters like McKellar Lake, inside the city limits, and sailors look for autumn winds at Arkabutla Lake where fall racing is now in progress.

However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars.

In December 1988, the second largest city in the republic, Leninakan ( now Gyumri ), was heavily damaged by a massive quake that killed more than 25, 000 people.

* 1539 – Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada ( now Colombia ), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.

* 1782 – The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.

The castle was classified as a protected historical monument by France in 1984 and most of the domain now belongs to the Coastal Protection Agency and is managed by the city of Hendaye.

The Bonapartes at the time had a modest four-story home in town ( now a museum known as Casa Buonaparte ) and a rarely used country home in the hills north of the city ( now site of the Arboretum des Milelli ).

After the death of Alexander the city ( now known as Akroinοn ( Ακροϊνόν ) or Nikopolis ( Νικόπολις ) in Ancient Greek ), was ruled by the Seleucids and the kings of Pergamon, then Rome and Byzantium.

Sakharov was arrested on January 22, 1980, following his public protests against the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and was sent to internal exile in the city of Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, a city that was off-limits to foreigners.

The city is also famous for the Convento de Jesus ( now known as the City Museum " Santa Joana "), built in the 15th century, which contains the tomb of the daughter of Afonso V, St. Joana, who died in 1490.

The three highest buildings in the city are the radio mast of WDR in Bonn-Venusberg ( 180 m ), the headquarters of the Deutsche Post called Post Tower ( 162. 5 m ) and the former building for the German members of parliament Langer Eugen ( 114. 7 m ) now the new location of the UN-Campus.

Also relocated from the state of Rio de Janeiro were the 1st and 3rd Combat Cars Regiment, now stationed in the city of Santa Maria, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

The Turks called the city Istanbul ( though not officially renamed until 1930 ) and it has remained Turkey's largest and most populous city, although Ankara is now the capital.

" A second possible objective now occurred to the French – an Allied incursion into Alsace and an attack on the city of Strasbourg.

On August 31, 2010, eleven defendants were indicted on RICO charges for allegedly assisting AccessHealthSource, a local health care provider, in obtaining and maintaining lucrative contracts with local and state government entities in the city of El Paso, Texas, “ through bribery of and kickbacks to elected officials or himself and others, extortion under color of authority, fraudulent schemes and artifices, false pretenses, promises and representations and deprivation of the right of citizens to the honest services of their elected local officials ” ( see indictment ).

* May 15 – one of the first exchange contracts ( cambium ) to mention the city of Bruges involved two parties: Giovanni Villani, representing the Peruzzi Company, granting a loan to Tommaso Fini, representing the Gallerani Company of Siena.

One of Daley's first acts was to deny aldermen the power to review city contracts, a right they enjoyed under former Mayors Washington and Sawyer.

There should be a level playing field, where no one has an advantage-or a disadvantage-in obtaining city contracts, simply because they know me or anyone else in government.

Patrick Daley profited from two Cardinal Growth ventures formed to win city contracts while concealing Patrick's role.

" Mayor Daley also said he didn't know if there are other city contracts involving the younger Daley

On November 4, 2008, Jacquelyn Heard, the mayor's veteran press secretary, said the city would indefinitely stop all spending on 10 public relations contracts that could have paid as much as $ 5 million each.

Anthropologist David Graeber has noted that, historically, the first wage labor contracts we know about – whether in ancient Greece or Rome, or in the Malay or Swahili city states in the Indian ocean – were in fact contracts for the rental of chattel slaves ( usually the owner would receive a share of the money, and the slave, another, with which to maintain his or her living expenses.

In 1924, the county's three commissioners were indicted and recalled by voters " in response to ' gross irregularities ' in the award of contracts for construction of the Burnside and Ross Island bridges "; since all three had been supported by the Ku Klux Klan, their recall also helped reduce that organization's influence in the city.

The county contracts with the adjacent city of Richmond to provide fire fighting services.

The Riverside County Sheriff's Department's Lake Elsinore Valley Regional Station contracts police services for the city.

The city of Wildomar contracts for fire protection and emergency medical services with the Riverside County Fire Department through a cooperative agreement with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection ( Cal Fire ).

The fire department contracts with the City of Herculaneum to provide fire protection to most of the city.

The City of Jennings contracts with the St. Louis County Police Department to provide professional police services to the city.

Its neighbor, Marble Cliff, contracts with the city to provide these to its own residents.

The city utilizes Hamilton County Emergency Medical Services for emergency medical services and contracts fire & rescue services to the Tri-Community Volunteer Fire Department located in Collegedale.

The town contracts with the city of Argyle to meet its police, fire, and court service needs.

Under this form of government, the City Council employees a professional trained city manager to implement the policies, contracts, and agreements that are approved by the City Council.

He signs all city ordinances and official contracts on behalf of the city.

The city lost provincially funded school bus contracts ($ 1 million per year ) to private operators.

He continued and expanded Maynard Jackson's programs for including minority and female-owned businesses in all city contracts.

The contracts between the company and immigrants were signed at the inn Der Pfauen, located a few meters from the entrance of the city.