Last year, the opposition mayors of two Caracas districts banned car owners from using their cars one day a week.

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The company operates 31 stores under the Birks brand in Canada and 24 stores under the Mayors brand in Florida and Georgia, two retail locations in Calgary and Vancouver under the Brinkhaus brand, and one retail location in Orlando under the Rolex brand.

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We've got two wonderful mayors in the house.

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The rotten politics of Bridgeport and Waterbury, two struggling Connecticut cities, have claimed the heads of several mayors in succession in recent years.

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High real estate taxes contributed to the ouster last month of two dozen Indiana mayors.

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All the mayors are white, but two of the five aldermen in each city are black.

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She has never been elected to public office, but she is very much part of the city's political upper class, having worked for two mayors, Maynard Jackson and Andrew Young.

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And would-be mayors have to have lived in the city for at least two years.

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This coalition of two separate movements, Fatherland and All Russia, was formed in 1999 by the mayors of Moscow and St Petersburg, Yury Luzhkov and Vladimir Yakovlev.

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Two main dangers came into focus this week as mayors demonstrated outside parliament in Rome and the central government imposed radical measures on the government of indebted Sicily.

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