Word: mayoral
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...hear residents' concerns. Zuma himself has established a hotline to the presidency and in August gathered hundreds of school principals in Durban to answer their questions on reform. The same month, in the first of what he promises will be a series of surprise presidential inspections, he caught the mayor of the northern town of Balfour playing hooky. (See Jacob Zuma's profile in the 2008 TIME...
...municipality has begun destroying 88 homes in Silwan in order to make way for an archaeological park. Earlier this year, riots broke out in the Old City when an Islamist movement based among Israeli Arabs accused Israel of threatening the mosque. (See TIME's video "Jerusalem's New Secular Mayor...
...What we are not good at is checking whether our program is effective,” said Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons...
...posted in China's cities nationally. BofA Merrill Lynch estimates that retail sales in the western provinces rose 19.2% in the first half of 2009, 3 percentage points more than in the east. "Xi'an has reached a very important development stage," explains Chen, Xi'an's mayor. "Incomes are just at the first point when people can buy homes and cars...
...reined in her wild syntax, tossed about folksy-isms like "bullcrap" and called President Obama's economic policies "back-assward." And she stressed her average-Jane image: she let Oprah's cameras follow her to the gym; in her book, she recalls going door to door to run for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, with two kids in a wagon and a toddler in a backpack...