Earlier this year, Mr. Davy was presented with what may well prove to be the challenge of his political career when Mr. McGreevey asked him to take over as state commissioner of human services and direct a sweeping overhaul of the troubled child welfare agency.
Transit advocates said these would be the most sweeping service cuts since the city's fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s.
Given their training, they surely understand that their economies are not now strong enough to absorb more austerity, including broad new taxes or further sweeping service cuts.
The Times says we're facing "the most sweeping service cuts since the city's fiscal crisis of the mid-nineteen-seventies".
The Times says we're facing "the most sweeping service cuts since the city's fiscal crisis of the mid-nineteen-seventies". Before anyone gets nostalgic, remember that it took more than twenty years for the transit system to recover from the neglect of the seventies and if you think that dirty, graffiti-covered trains were fun, stick to ordering "Beat Street" on Netflix and stay out of our subways.
That culminated in passage in 1999 of a sweeping financial services law that tore down the Depression-era Glass-Steagall wall separating regulated commercial banks from largely unregulated investment banks.
Its storied Fire Department has been outsourced to the county and trash collection, recycling and street sweeping services have been contracted out.
Other contract extensions include deals with CleanStreet Inc. to continue paying $10,900 per month for street sweeping services and with Nature's Image Inc. to hold the price of city trail maintenance steady at roughly $63,000 per year.
Dame Barbara, who instituted a sweeping centralisation of the service, will now be in charge of undoing her own handiwork.
It has to bring about a sweeping financial restructuring, including service cutbacks, limits on patronage and concessions on wages and benefits from the work force.
The French government has been saying for weeks that it would not allow Britain to have a sweeping opt-out from financial services rules.
