31.   The increases in black political power in city halls across the country have opened up various areas of municipal service contracting, including financial services.

32.   The Lyonnaise-Suez stock swap announced in April will create a powerhouse able to provide municipal services from water to waste management to energy distribution to communications.

33.   The missing money was to have been spent to repair roads, buildings and schools, as well as to provide municipal services in Bosnian towns.

34.   The strategy may sound absurdly self-destructive, but it fits into a grand tradition of lousy municipal services.

35.   The town of Yabed is in a zone of the West Bank where Palestinians run municipal services but the Israeli Army retains full security control.

36.   The size of the shortfall almost certainly means that the mayor and the Council will have to consider deeper cuts in spending for municipal services.

37.   The survey also asked residents to rate municipal services.

38.   They view the whole system of trash collection as a municipal service organized on their behalf.

39.   This actually was an attempt to avert a general cutback in municipal services.

40.   To residents of cities that are losing people and jobs and are fighting just to hold the line on basic municipal services, such a question may seem self-indulgent.