1.   Assembly members and city officials grumble that the cancellation will cost the city more than staging the event.

2.   But his showcase projects, bailouts of automakers AZLK and ZiL, have cost the city dearly while failing to yield definitive results.

3.   But that would cost the city millions of dollars in fees and revenues.

4.   Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas said he believed the officers had already cost the city enough.

5.   Deferred maintenance of sewers and streets led to a crumbling infrastructure that costs the city tens of millions of dollars each year in emergency repairs.

6.   Giuliani said that the welfare proposal, if enacted into law, would cost the city millions of dollars.

7.   He has opposed earlier versions of the bill, saying he believed they would cost the city too much.

8.   In addition to traumatizing some law-abiding citizens, experts say, these cases cost the city millions of dollars in lawsuits and immeasurable capital in public trust.

9.   Low ratings cost the city millions of dollars a year in higher interest payments.

10.   Rendell said he had no idea how much this storm was costing the city, especially with another predicted for the weekend.