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Communications of The GambiaTelephones - main lines in use: 22,000 (1998)Telephones - mobile cellular: 4,485 (1998) Telephone system:
Radio broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 2, shortwave 0 (1998) Radios: 196,000 (1997) Television broadcast stations: 1 (government-owned) (1997) Televisions: 4,000 (1997) Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 2 (1999) Country code (Top-level domain): GM
One may.html">may say that from 1840 to
inaugurated, American municipal government.html">government was nothing but a
attempting to fix responsibility on public officers and a few
appealing to an electorate which was habitually somnolent but
righteousness.
During this epoch no important city.html">city remained immune from ruthless
officers and responsibilities at the behest of the boss.html">boss. "Ripper
of important municipalities. The city was made the plaything of
undergone one may, however, discern three general plans of
composed of two chambers--a board of aldermen and a common
council.html">council.html">council, as in many lesser cities. It soon became apparent that a
to look after administrative details. Such a body, in order to do
scattered. Favoritism is possible in letting contracts, in making
improvements, in purchasing supplies and real estate, and in a
committees, a shrewd manipulator could virtually control all the
controlling force. It reduced the council to a legislative body
and to remove heads of departments, thereby making him
Seth Low was an encouraging example of this type of government.
succeeded either in electing a subservient mayor or in curtailing
or appointed by the council or made subject to the approval of
the boss reigned, for councilmen from properly gerrymandered
was attempted to place the administration of various municipal
charge of the police, another of the fire department, another of
and not infrequently over thirty in a single city, as. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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