The city owns the land and chips in with some public funds, but an independent trust runs the zoo.

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The groups advocated campaign finance measures, similar to New York City's system with matching funds for small donations, and better, more independent enforcement.

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Singapore, a city-state with just over five million people, was an economic backwater when it became fully independent in 1965.

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Today, it remains a city both in name and in feel, with a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly downtown lined with independent stores, ethnic restaurants and coffee shops, as well as the Bergen Performing Arts Center, a theater, gallery and concert venue.

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The city claimed the filmmakers had a "longstanding sympathetic relationship" with the men and had not acted not as independent reporters but as advocates.

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On the 16, Ms. Tripp invited Ms. Lewinsky to have lunch with her in the Pentagon City mall, and there she was greeted by a corps of FBI agents and independent counsel lawyers and talking to a hotel room where she spent the next several hours.

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In 1995, the mayor struck a deal with the Republican-controlled state legislature to wrest control of the schools away from the city's semi-independent school board and its impenetrable bureaucracy.

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