21.   Incumbents often argue that Nassau is simply an expensive place to live and that residents demand services like parks, garbage collection and good schools.

22.   Indeed, some Kansas City government services already are performed by private companies, such as garbage collection, boulevard maintenance and street resurfacing.

23.   It may not be totally irrelevant to urban policy, but it is less important than garbage collection.

24.   It would be the equivalent of a small town within the limits of the city, with its own police and fire-fighting force and garbage collection.

25.   Lavin, at the time mayor of a community in Santiago, did not suspend garbage collection at the Spanish and British Embassies.

26.   Leave aside for a moment the nitty-gritty of actual garbage collection.

27.   Meanwhile, U.N. administrators run Kosovo as a virtual colony, paying for everything from police to telephones to water and garbage collection.

28.   No matter who was offering an analysis, there seemed to be agreement that garbage collection in New York City would undergo some significant changes.

29.   Part of the problem is that unlike those in Western countries city governments here get no tax revenue or federal funds to finance garbage collection.

30.   Police presence, garbage collection and snow plowing all were stepped up.