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  Greater London Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986.
Greater London covered the counties of London and most of Middlesex, plus parts of Essex, Kent and Surrey, a small part of Hertfordshire and the County Borough of Croydon, County Borough of East Ham and County Borough of West Ham which had been independent of county control.
Mayor of London and the London Assembly of the Greater London Authority (GLA) 2000 +
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 ninemsn Encarta - Search View - London (England)
London has one of the most extensive urban railway systems in the world; in addition to the Underground railway, there is a network of suburban railways covering London and the surrounding region.
London is also the home of the British Academy, which promotes historical, philosophical, and philological studies; the Royal Academy (of fine arts); the Royal Academy of Engineering; and the Royal Society, devoted to the encouragement of the sciences.
London’s prosperity was temporarily affected by the Black Death of 1348-1349, a bubonic plague epidemic that killed up to one third of the entire population.
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 Asia Society - Publications -
Decreed that parliamentary elections should be held in May or June 1999, that all parties meeting the legal requirements would be able to compete, and that appointed military representation in legislative bodies should gradually be reduced in accordance with a law to be enacted later.
In previous elections it was widely known that government employees and their families were expected to, and did, vote for and in many cases worked on behalf of Golkar.
Elections in 1999 will for the first time be held on a holiday to avoid workplace pressure and the possibility, as has happened in the past, that supervisors will know how their employees voted and take punitive action against them.
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 A Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union --E--
When the Council of Ministers meets on economic affairs it comprises the economic and finance ministers of the EU and is known as Ecofin.
In 1995, however, the European Council agreed to abandon the name in favour of the euro, in deference to German concern that the ECU would not be credible, given its track record of repeated devaluation occasioned by the weakness of several of its components, notably the lira, the peseta, the escudo and the drachma.
The European Council (not to be confused with the Council of Ministers) refers to the twice-yearly, or occasionally more frequent, summit meetings of EU heads of government (plus the directly elected presidents of France and Finland) and the president of the Commission.
www.euro-know.org /dictionary/e.html   (11086 words)

  
 London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
London was once in danger of flooding caused by surge tides, when high tides and storms raise the level of the water in the North Sea.
The Greater London Council was a governing body that had authority over the governments of the boroughs and the City.
Today, the Greater London area is governed chiefly by the governments of the 32 boroughs and the City of London.
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 Greater London Authority - People's Question Time 17 October 2002
The vast majority of the sort of trips you're talking about are done in the evenings and weekends because the vast majority of Londoners use their cars not to get to work, they use public transport to get to work, they use their car for leisure purposes in the evenings and particularly at weekends.
Either the borough council is spending nothing on maintenance, which I doubt, or you've got major structural problems and we will be talking of hundreds of millions of pounds when we come to start with this big programme.
Shortly after the election the briefing we had when we were first elected was that all the franchises for running the train service in south London, east London, the rest of London, were going to be refranchised in the next couple of years.
www.london.gov.uk /gla/pqt/pqtoct1702/pqtoct17trans5.jsp   (3448 words)

  
 City Mayors: Mayor of London
To make this happen, the Mayor's priorities are to rebuild London's failing transport system, to ensure that London has the number and quality of police officers it needs to reduce crime and the fear of crime throughout Greater London, and to celebrate London's diversity through all aspects of the city's culture.
While staff in the Greater London Authority are appointed by the London Assembly, the Mayor appoints the boards of Transport for London and the London Development Agency.
The Greater London Authority (GLA) is not a traditional local authority providing a range of public services but, under the direction of the Mayor, exists to provide strategic direction for the future of London.
www.citymayors.com /uk/london.html   (1393 words)

  
 A Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union --C--
A national election, called by Chirac in 1997 to gain endorsement for his policy of austerity, backfired when, despite his personal popularity, the Socialists won a majority in the Assembly, with Lionel Jospin replacing Chirac's Gaullist ally, Alain Juppé, as premier.
Corpus Juris has not been formally put to the Council of Ministers, and is portrayed in the first instance as a means to combat EU cross-border fraud.
It should not be confused with the European Council (the summit meetings of the member states of the EU) or the Council of Ministers (the EU's regular ministerial-level decision-making body).
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 Greater London Council Election Results
The Greater London Council was established by the London Government Act 1963, which received Royal Assent on 31st July 1963.
Initially, it was elected in multi-member electoral areas comprising the whole of each London Borough, but these were accepted as too large for genuine local representation, and from 1973 the GLC was elected from single-member electoral areas, identical to the constituencies used for Parliamentary elections.
In 1973 and subsequent years, GLC members were elected in single member electoral areas coterminous with the parliamentary constituencies of the day.
www.election.demon.co.uk /glc/glcelection.html   (609 words)

  
 City Mayors: London's congestion charge
The London congestion charge was strongly opposed by Conservative members on the London Assembly (London’s municipal council) and 'The Evening Standard', London’s evening newspaper.
He was a Labour member of Lambeth Council between 1971 and 1978, holding the position of Vice-Chair of the Housing Committee from 1971 to 1973.
In 1973 he was elected as a Labour member of the Greater London Council (GLC).
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 Plato on utopia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Assembly is responsible for the election of most of the city's officers and magistrates.
The Council is composed of 90 members chosen by election from each property class for a total of 360 members.
This Council is to possess various sorts of knowledge and it must also educate its own members.
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 london geezer
St John's Wood was one of the first London suburbs, built in Victorian times to encourage the upper middle classes to move out of central London to the more rural outskirts.
The Clink (a notorious medieval prison), the Golden Hinde (a reconstruction of Drake's famous galleon), the Greater London Assembly and, one day soon-ish probably, the 1016ft high London Bridge Tower (controversial pointy skyscraper).
Peter Tatchell infamously lost the Bermondsey by-election in 1983, which is the only reason Simon Hughes still has a career.
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 Why Pinochet should not go free
In London he consults doctors and is warned that unless he has an urgent operation on a herniated disc, he could be permanently paralysed.
However, the longer Pinochet remains under arrest the weaker he and his supporters become, the greater the encouragement to his victims to seek legal redress in Chile and the sooner democrats in Chile will be able to consolidate the transition by changing the Constitution promulgated in 1980 at the height of the dictatorship.
At the subsequent elections, on December 14 1989, the ‘Concertación’ coalition of centre and left won 72 out of 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, but only 22 of the 38 senate seats.
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 Wikisource:Election data - Wikisource
This page links to data about election results anywhere in the world.
This can include the results of elections from federal, sub-national and municipal authorities, and can include referendum results.
Referendum on Northern Ireland remaining part of the UK (1973)
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 Election 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
For the staff in the Louisa County registrar’s office, the three members of the county’s board of elections and poll workers at 14 precincts, election day is a long one.
On site by 5 a.m., the officers of election complete their set up procedures, and Cris Watkins, county registrar and Teresa Hughes, assistant registrar, have arrived at the County Office Building location ready to answer questions.
The chief of election next drives to the Ogg Building where the electoral board members are waiting for the bags and machines.
www.thecentralvirginian.com /election2005.htm   (600 words)

  
 Council for National Policy Database H-M
President of the Council for National Policy (CNP), president of the internationally known Family Life Seminars, Founder of Christian Heritage College, member of the Executive Board of Moral Majority, a member of the Editorial Board of Christian Inquirer, and a member of the Council of 56 of the Religious Roundtable.
Founder of the Religious Roundtable Council of 56, former executive for Colgate-Palmolive, member of the Boards of Kim Wickes Ministries, Wycliffe Bible Associates, Bill Glass Evangelism, and All India Prayer Fellowship, National Field Director of the Conservative Caucus, a member of the Editorial board of Christian Inquirer.
They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous.
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 The Presidential Election
Imagine that we read of an election occuring anywhere in the third world in which the self-declared winner was the son of the former prime minister and that former prime minister was himself the former head of that nation's secret police (cia).
It is the duty of election officals prior to the election to go through their records and purge names of deceased people, along with people that have moved,etc.
A trial court judge had previously ruled that the election was tainted by ``massive, well-conceived and well-orchestrated'' absentee ballot fraud in which even a dead man voted.
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 Secrets of the Federal Reserve
Thus the proposed Federal Reserve Bank was to be "controlled by Congress" and answerable to the government, but the majority of the directors were to be chosen, "directly or indirectly" by the banks of the association.
The Council would be chosen by the directors of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks, and would remain unknown to the public.
It is interesting to note how many assassinations of Presidents of the United States follow their concern with the issuing of public currency; Lincoln with his Greenback, non-interest-bearing notes, and Garfield, making a pronouncement on currency problems just before he was assassinated.
www.apfn.org /apfn/reserve.htm   (16820 words)

  
 CIPFA - Institute Presidents
Keith J Bridge, CBE, Chief Executive, Humberside CC Gerry E Daniel, County Treasurer, Nottinghamshire
Maurice F Stonefrost, CBE, Director General, Greater London Council
David B Chynoweth, Director of Finance, Lothian Regional Council
www.cipfa.org.uk /council/presidents.cfm   (325 words)

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