But Mr. DeBlasio also cast doubt on the rationale for which Deputy Mayor Robert Steel said the city would be willing to consider a private operator: the chance that a for-profit vendor would more readily embrace new technologies and parking systems.
Not content with that extraordinary achievement -- and not willing to trust in its permanence, Robert Krieble embarked on a heroic personal effort to consolidate freedom's victory by helping democracy and free enterprise take root throughout the former Soviet bloc.