In New York, City "operation Atlas" has deployed armed police at key locations like the Stock Market and Pennsylvania Station.
Half an hour's drive away in Parma, Ohio's seventh-largest city, a rival operation was at work.
Suddenly, the old issues of race and local control seemed less pressing, and co-operation between city and suburbs more appealing.
The officer in charge of the police operation at Belfast City Hall has denied police were caught "on the hop" by rioting.
Dr. Tyler Curiel is an oncologist at Tulane Medical Center, one of the few hospitals in the city that is still in operation.
Suddenly, tens of thousands of government employees had to move north as various ministries transferred sections of their operation to the city over a period of two years.
The 1, 901 counterfeit 200-euro banknotes were seized in an operation in the northern city of Oporto, police said in a statement.
"'There is certainly relief in the city today that another successful police operation has led to the removal from our streets of instruments of death and destruction, " he said.
Senior commanders in Kabul said they didn't want a repeat of the 2004 invasion of Fallujah, Iraq, an operation that gutted the city, making for a propaganda victory for insurgents, even though U.S. forces won the battle.
In 1999, the City's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications entered into a number of franchise contracts for the installation, maintenance and operation of public payphones on City sidewalks.
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No wonder, barely five years ago, that the city was on the verge of insolvency, rescued only by bonds issued by the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Co-operation Authority, a state agency set up to supervise the city's finances.
Unionist councillors walked out of the City Hall and threatened to withhold co-operation with Sinn Fein by refusing to fill the deputy lord mayor's position.
The new Esplex operation will be in the Polish city of Wroclaw, which is already a base for other computer companies including Siemens and Hewlett Packard.
Al-Maliki called the operation in the oil-rich southern city a success Thursday but said it exposed weaknesses in the security forces, including operational snafus and troop desertions that he said will be addressed and reviewed.
Merrill didn't even take much of a hit from a subprime mortgage operation it bought from Cleveland-based National City (nyse: NCC - news - people ) last year, right before all the troubles in the sector started.
The city has been settling lawsuits almost since the cable cars began operation in 1893.
The City Airport was conceived as a low volume, high margin operation - focussing on the business traveller.
That's new in just the last few weeks, ever since the Iraqi army launched an operation to gain control of its second-largest city.
Bush left little doubt that he was disappointed in Arafat, who remains pinned down in his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah as Israeli forces continue with an aggressive military operation to root out what they have described as a terrorist infrastructure.
"Neither the crane operator nor his supervisors made sure the operation was being performed according to approved plans, " city Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri said in a statement.
But the Ryder Cup is an event which has spread far beyond the limits of the Celtic Manor, consuming the entire city of Newport and beyond, and requiring the close co-operation of dozens of bodies.
His main thesis is that the buzz of urban life, and the opportunities it offers for co-operation and collaboration, is what attracts people to the city, which in turn makes cities into the engines of art, commerce, science and progress.
The drive is part of Operation Enterprise, a project run by Norfolk Constabulary, Norwich City Centre Management Team and Norfolk Drugs and Alcohol Action Team.
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Vilanova, who was present for last weekend's 4-0 win over city rival Espanyol, faces six weeks of chemotherapy and radiotherapy following the operation which took place on December 20.
The bureau, based at London's City University, is an independent body and a not-for-profit operation.
Last September, hundreds of emergency personnel were involved in a rescue operation during a simulated chemical attack at Bank Tube station in the City of London.
The operation was first run out of Costa Rica, and then from Panama City, Panama, according to the indictment.
It amounted to a guarantee that closer eurozone co-operation would not undermine the EU single market coupled with technical safeguards for the City of London.
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It seeks to locate both suspects at the scene of the bombing and then pieces together the operation to intercept them three days later, as they drove a hijacked car near the city, hours after images of their faces were broadcast by the media.
The Israeli press clearly believes that this was a Hezbollah operation - newspapers have published maps indicating that the drone was launched near the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon.
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