51.   Is there any town in America as obsessed as Kansas City with the question of whether municipal government should supply free trash bags to its citizens?

52.   Investors bet Yanjing would show strong growth and benefit from injections of below-market-rate assets by its owners, the Beijing municipal government.

53.   It helps municipal governments avoid the accounting headaches that go with calculating how much to rebate to the government without exceeding tax-code limits.

54.   It is even more remarkable from one who spent his career in the parochial confines of the Qingdao municipal government.

55.   It is not the same as the public sector deficit, which includes municipal governments, state-owned companies and pension funds.

56.   It is the sort of thing you would expect from a totalitarian state, not the municipal government of a city like New York.

57.   It is widely believed that the city, or at least some of the banks that work cozily with the municipal government, are secret partners.

58.   Its coffers are low and its municipal government has been buffeted by a massive corruption scandal.

59.   Jinno said that untold billions in third-sector debts had been guaranteed by municipal governments with little public scrutiny.

60.   Kochi Prefecture and the Osaka municipal government have announced their intention to drop the nationality rule for the spring hiring season next year.