In Los Angeles, city officials have tentatively agreed to another plan for a downtown stadium, and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently set up a city task force to oversee the project.
"I argued when I was chairing the city regions task group... we should be looking at some regionally-significant programmes rather than having lots of little dissipated mini-programmes all over the area, " she said.
Overshadowed by the soda ban are a slew of other recommendations from the city's obesity task force.
Ms. Burtis plans massive celebrations such as New Year's Eve, but coordinating the intricate movement of the imported beach buildings proved so complicated that city officials handed the task to her team.
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However, authorities in New York have become so concerned about bedbugs that the city council has appointed a task force to examine ways of tackling the problem.
However, the unlikelihood of further prosecutions may prompt criticism by those who say the City should be brought to task for its role in the pension funds theft.
Making a city smart is a formidable task but crucial to the evolution of how we will be living in 2030 when 5 billion people will be urban dwellers.
Many still ask whether Rio authorities, who have succeeded in cracking down on much of the city's drug violence, are up to the task of protecting the waves of tourists expected to flood the city during the upcoming double-header of mega-events.
But while Palace had the fist sight on goal - a Ben Watson shot that sailed over - it was soon clear they would not have an easy task against a combative City side.
Revoking such benefits is a delicate task: When the City of London, home to much of Britain's financial industry, abruptly axed free electric-car parking in 2008, angry petitions circulated among drivers demanding the privilege be restored, arguing that many of them bought the small, expensive cars mainly to get the free parking.
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Later in the program, we head to Detroit, where an official task with paying off the city's massive debt has his eye on works in the city's famous art institute.
The culmination of more than two years of study and 30, 000 conversations with the public, Detroit Future City is less a master plan and more a guidebook that lays out a path for how Detroiters can begin the gargantuan task of rebuilding a decaying city that can no longer afford to provide even the most basic services to its shrinking population.
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Authorities assembled a task force of about 30 investigators, including city homicide detectives, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to assist in the probe.
The task force, chaired by the council's city development director, Mike Galloway, will meet regularly.
After turning the city over to the 1st Cavalry Division April 15, the task force headed south to pacify the cities of Najaf, Diwaniya, Kut and Karbala before heading back to Germany in July.
In San Francisco, California, a volunteer organization called the Urban Wind Task Force has distributed 27 wind-monitoring stations throughout the city to survey sites for potential turbine installations.
Michele Birnbaum, the chairwoman of Community Board 8's vendor task force, said she personally doesn't think New York City benefits from the proliferation of retail trucks.
Clough, who also played for Liverpool and Manchester City before becoming player-boss at Burton in 1998, faces a tough task in following in his father's footsteps at Derby.
But authorities have assembled a task force of about 25 investigators to assist in the probe, including city homicide detectives, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
And as only Muslims are permitted to enter Islam's holiest city, were he to win the commission, Lord Foster would have the tricky task of seeing through his design from a distance.
As the city buried its young Monday, questions were raised about whether Brazil is up to the task of ensuring the safety in venues for the World Cup next year, and the Olympics in 2016.
Government bureaucracy makes fine choices when the task at hand is bringing hundreds of millions of people from the country into the city to manufacture textiles and toys and assemble electronics.
But the police and city officials have cited that fact as evidence of an organised crime network, and since 1992 the task force has been arresting peddlers on more serious criminal charges.
In the Forbidden City they were given a show of huge ancient scrolls that were silently rolled and unrolled by women trained for the task.
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