1.   Alone, it will not revitalize a neglected area or unify a divided city, municipal leaders and academic experts said.

2.   Authorities reported seizing large batches of weapons and explosives in Moscow and Ryazan in recent weeks, and warned municipal leaders to increase security.

3.   About eight such municipal leaders, sipping tea and eating bananas, gather for a mid-morning meeting in a town office.

4.   Both were made possible after years of planning and negotiations with municipal leaders that resulted in the rezoning of the sites for rental housing.

5.   Clinton asked the municipal leaders for their help in winning passage of his proposals to increase spending for schools and health insurance and to tighten gun control.

6.   For municipal leaders around the country who are struggling to comply with federal clean-air laws, the answer to reducing pollution may be in their own backyards.

7.   From Jersey City to Weehawken, municipal leaders, residents, environmentalists and developers discussed what to do with the abandoned factories, docks and warehouses.

8.   Its ever-suave Mayor, Willie L. Brown, Jr., has led municipal leaders in a mad dash for political cover.

9.   Municipal leaders are holding out for more.

10.   Quill and other municipal union leaders, in fact, trusted Wagner, who never mistook bluster for substance.