1.   Faircloth was the leading proponent of transferring authority away from Barry and to the control board.

2.   Norton also criticized the control board for studying whether the city should put a city manager at the helm.

3.   Meanwhile, emergency control boards were established at a number of mines where strikes had been continuing.

4.   It called on ministers to set up a firearms control board which would vet all applicants before issuing a guns licence.

5.   And a chief management officer accountable to the control board runs nine major city agencies that had been run by the mayor.

6.   And he was named to lead the control board by President Clinton.

7.   And last week, after the control board forced the mayor to relinquish some of his power over the police department, Soulsby announced a major management shakeup.

8.   And the control board has slowly begun to improve the school system, police department and other city agencies.

9.   Armed with its new powers, the two-year-old control board is demonstrating backbone at last by taking over most of the city government.