The city government has threatened to withdraw its paltry compensation offer from anyone who refuses to move.
In Bogor, near Jakarta, the city government has started to charge an illegal levy on goat imports.
The city government has set itself up as shareholder or partner in at least 200 big firms ranging from car making to fast food.
The city government of Xinyu has helped keep U.S.-listed solar panel-maker LDK Solar Co.
He says the new city deals - and other moves the government has been taking to give Britain's "city regions" more scope to pool and control their own resources - are genuinely encouraging.
The city has been lobbying the federal government for revitalization funding for three years, Nagin's office said, and has received less than half of Federal Emergency Management Agency funding needed to repair or rebuild public facilities.
And while the system is far from perfect, the income is crucial to the newly formed government in rebuilding the city, whose basic infrastructure has been shattered by war.
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So, to use the jargon of the City, there has been a reverse takeover of the government by the gents (yes they are mostly of that gender) of the Treasury, the officials not the elected politicians.
Little Rock School District's progress toward being declared desegregated by the government has been slowed by the city's changing neighborhoods and disputes among local education and government leaders, experts say.
Annan's plan includes allowing humanitarian groups access to the population, releasing detainees, starting a political dialogue and withdrawing troops from city centers -- a mandate the government has not met, according to the United Nations.
This bank, until now owned by the Shenzhen local government, has 200 branches in the most capitalist city in China, with deposits growing by 50% a year.
Faced with virtually uncontrollable borders, the coalition government launched a roundup of migrants from the city streets, and has detained around 4, 000 in makeshift camps.
Ouattara went to the scene of the stampede, in Plateau, the city's central business district, Tuesday and has ordered the government to take care of the injured, his office said.
The reason I got back in touch with Sioux City's leaders last week is that recently the federal government has shown it will speedily get involved in aviation-related issues when it wants to.
They called on the Taliban to open an office in Doha "to enter into dialogue" with the Afghan government, which has also set up a base in the Qatari city to conduct peace negotiations.
The government has allowed, on a city-by-city basis, some breaks for first-time buyers.
Dandong's city government has moved offices to the area, but the thickets of surrounding high-rise buildings remain unfinished and empty.
The government has been reluctant to award city status to London boroughs.
Andrew Holmes, the council's director of city development, is dismayed that Edinburgh has been given only 7% of the government's budget for developing social housing for lower-paid workers.
Along with these structural changes, the city has seen changes to its educational and government systems, including overhauls of the levee board and redistribution of oil royalties.
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In addition to the special annoyances of working directly under the federal government, the mayor of Washington has to deal with the usual problems of a big city.
Michigan state government now has assumed control of the city.
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The group held Mugabe's government responsible for the cholera epidemic that broke out early last month in the capital city and has since spread to other parts of the country.
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The city saves money by contracting for almost all of its basic services with the county, but still reaps the benefits of an elected government, which has been in the hands of a small group of men since the city's founding.
Last year, the federal government removed that limitation and now New York City has, too.
For example, the city government in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, has recently built a new exhibition hall.
Birmingham now has five universities in the city after the government approved full status for Newman University College.
Less than six months later, an electoral defeat in the same city has shown how quickly Yukio Hatoyama's government has dimmed those hopes.
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