Word: municipales
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
In the worst years, a certain begrimed anxiety hung in the air. New York City was an interminably terminal case, its official death notice reprinted weekly. Bonds came due; corporations bailed out for Connecticut, the Sunbelt, anywhere. Citizens could paraphrase the municipal hymn New York, New York: "The Bronx is...
But the bill signing last week had an even greater psychological and symbolic importance for New Yorkers. It culminated and confirmed a renewal of morale and energy that has been proceeding in the city for many months. A plausible case can be made that New York City-which the outside...
New York has always been theatrically narcissistic-one of the qualities for which it has been loathed in other parts of the U.S. All over the city, people are wearing I LOVE NY T shirts (a red heart where love should be), in a sort of truculent self-consciousness, an...
The committee report spares almost no one who was involved in the disaster. The operation of the plant, owned by the Swiss firm Givaudan of the Hoffmann-La Roche chemical and pharmaceutical group, was unsafe to begin with. Company officials waited 27 hours after the accident before notifying municipal officials...
To thousands of ordinary New Yorkers, the biggest problem afoot has been not fiscal but fecal. Unlike New York City's money troubles, the spread of dog excrement on the streets and parks long seemed insoluble and irreversible. Last week, after years of fruitless public clamor for an ordinance...