He befriended and backed Ed Lee, now mayor, and has worked with his administration to craft policy-shaping plans, notably ending the payroll tax.

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However, labor leaders and interim Mayor Ed Lee -- who was appointed in January, after his predecessor became lieutenant governor, and is now seeking election -- co-opted Mr. Adachi's pension reform initiative and performed thrombotic surgery.

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Philadelphia settled a civil rights lawsuit last year over its stop-and-frisk program by agreeing to court monitoring, and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee backed off plans to adopt stop and frisk after weeks of criticism last summer.

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"With Amazon Cloud Player, Roku customers have the ability to directly access their music collection, including any music purchased from Amazon's library of more than 22 million audio tracks, on their TVs, " said Ed Lee, Vice President of Content Acquisition at Roku.

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