Sheik Sultan bin Tahoon al-Nahyan, chairman of Abu Dhabi's tourism authority, announced last year that marina development would be at the heart of the strategy to attract visitors.
The authority announced last month that it would probably raise bus and subway fares next year to close a projected budget deficit of $1.1 billion.
But Mr. Thielemann, whose tenure has been stormy because of his demand for greater authority, announced last week that he will become music director of Dresden's Semperoper and Staatskapelle after his contract here expires in 2011.
The Long Island Power Authority will allow residential customers to buy electricity produced by nonpolluting, renewable technologies for about $7.50 to $12 more a month than what they now pay for power from conventional sources, the authority announced last week.
With the help of the public and the Fire Brigades Union,we fought back and thankfully the authority announced last week that it would be withdrawing those plans – for the moment anyway.
Entergy is trying to buy reactors around the Northeast, and the authority announced last November that it had chosen the company because it had made promises regarding the continued operation of the reactors and continued employment and career opportunities for employees at the two locations.
The authority announced earlier this week that in addition to previous money-saving measures, a further saving of £15m would be needed.
After a government inspector found "serious shortcomings" in its original plan for 29,000 properties, the local authority announced 7,000 extra homes.
Federal authorities announced today what they called the largest seizure of the hallucinogenic drug ecstasy, nearly 1,100 pounds.
One of Taipei's largest department stores, Pacific Sogo, may soon be closed for disinfecting, health authorities announced today.
Federal authorities announced today that the police in South Africa had arrested James W. Kilgore, the last fugitive from the Symbionese Liberation Army wanted in the shotgun killing of a woman 27 years ago.
