1.  By privatizing governmental departments, he says, Riordan has put City Hall up for sale to developers and businesses with deep pockets.

2.  He was the director of the French governmental department responsible for royal festivities and ceremonies and is known to have ordered such fittings for Versailles and other royal palaces.

3.  In sum, a vigorous Mafia is the polar opposite of a good governmental antitrust department.

4.  Admirable, but the programme, by definition calls for better sanitation, better nutrition and therefore, better co-ordination between governmental departments.