11.   In less than a month, New York City voters will elect the mayor who will lead the city into the next millennium.

12.   It included a strategy to elect a mayor and council that favored privatization.

13.   It included a strategy to elect a mayor and council that favored privatization and a plan to discredit the department so the public would support a private takeover.

14.   It is designed to create a single city council with the same number of seats for ethnic Muslims and Croats, who will then elect one mayor.

15.   National Action Party governors currently control four states, and both parties have elected mayors in large cities.

16.   Next year the city will have a chance to elect its mayor for the first time.

17.   Only the mayor is elected citywide.

18.   Ridley-Thomas, who is African-American, and Riordan, who is white, have been at odds politically since the mayor was elected.

19.   Such were the broad themes struck by a former federal prosecutor once considered too inexperienced in politics and too short on tact to be ever elected mayor.

20.   The mayor was elected largely on an anti- development platform.