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...and city halls were targeted by fires and buses and cars were set ablaze....
...In the city of Pontiac, outside Detroit, AIG won another battle against a local housing charity when a court ruled in February that Presbyterian Village North acted wrongly in trying to regain control of...
...Retired city employees saw their post-retirement benefits slashed as part of the deal to help Detroit emerge from bankruptcy, but this pushed more of these low-income Detroiters into insolvency themselves...
...This month, the FT City Network, our panel of more than 50 top figures from the City of London, were asked for their views on the post-election environment in the UK....
...They are less victims of ageism than a product of how the system works....
...AllianceBernstein, the asset manager, points out that the city will have to begin making actuarially-based annual contributions to its policemen’s and firemen’s pension funds next year, which will double...
...Instead they were replaced with a more respectable calibre of tenants — policemen, clerks and nurses....
...In spite of estimates that the new structure could raise plan returns by 1-2 percentage points, cut costs by billions, and propel New York’s retirement system into the 21st century, it received little support...
...and firemen, but serving ones as well....
...worker in some of China’s biggest cities....
...He even accepts that secret policemen, too, suffered in the past. “Everyone was under the system. They had the same shit as us.” He is number 39 on the official list of revolutionaries....
...But Mrs Waziri, who came out of retirement to take charge of the EFCC, says she removed only 10 officers who falsely portrayed her as a stooge of high-level suspects – and has brought charges against three...
...Firemen and policemen should be able to communicate with each other in an emergency....
...More than 2,000 policemen brought in for the occasion could do little to restore order....
...And he is not speaking metaphorically: GM is responsible for the healthcare of more people than the city of Detroit. It is this problem that prevents GM shrinking itself back to health....
...Gordon Brown inherited a strong and healthy economy, with a sensible level of tax and regulation and an extremely healthy pensions system....
...and an increasingly complex tax system....
...General Motors, the ageing giant of Detroit, will today unveil its latest sports cars - two new Chevrolet Corvettes and an overpowered 440 horsepower Cadillac - amid the glitz of the city's annual motor...
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