Still slim at 67, Bing leans forward in his office chair at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center in the broken heart of downtown.

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Perhaps coal handlers employed on diesel-electric locomotives, mafia goons controlling space at the municipal convention center or Broadway musicians paid even if the show doesn't need them.

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But on Friday, the panel said it also would study reusing a Newtown intermediate school or moving Sandy Hook Elementary to a former mental hospital campus that now includes a municipal town center and a youth academy.

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The Ferragamos, from Florence, have paid municipal workers' salaries to open the city's ancient center on weekends.

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Janic, the Koreni.rs proprietor, told Forbes by email it appears the shipment went first to the Albanian municipal government, which then distributed it such places as the Medical Center Gracanica.

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