61.   Lenenergo and the municipal government plan to form a jointly-owned subsidiary and transfer all their accounts receivable and accounts payable into the new company.

62.   Lawyers for the city blame a litigious atmosphere that makes municipal government an easy target for lawsuits.

63.   Mayor Yorikane Masumoto says the Kyoto municipal government has no plan to revise its recruiting system to give non-Japanese residents access to jobs in public service.

64.   Ministry hallways and meeting rooms are thronged with prefectural governors and teams of municipal government lobbyists seeking favorable allocations of public works funds and government subsidies.

65.   Municipal governments have few transaction records and scant information about the value of properties.

66.   Municipal governments and National Football League franchise owners warmly embraced the idea last year in St. Louis, Oakland, Charlotte and Baltimore.

67.   Municipal governments are supposed to fix streets.

68.   Municipal governments adjoining the barrens to the south have indicated a willingness to restrict outdoor lighting, at least within a five-mile swath of the preserve.

69.   Ms. Beaud said her efforts to persuade the Paris municipal government that it had an interest in supporting the American Center were quickly rebuffed.

70.   Municipal government and private-sector construction projects were not made subject to the guidelines, though their voluntary acceptance was welcomed.