While the BPD has moved to implement some of these reforms already which the decree acknowledges and commends Baltimore now has a legal tool to help cure what critics believe is a broken culture of often-brutal policing.
But the decree also acknowledges that similar efforts to halt profligate spending on such buildings in recent years have not worked as intended, and that the buildings have "harmed the image of the party and government".
In the decree, Renaissance disputed this, and acknowledged no wrongdoing.
The participants acknowledged that the decree had succeeded, to a degree.
The New York Legal Aid Society filed a legal challenge to the new policy in 1997, saying it would violate the Fair Housing Act and a 1992 consent decree in which the city acknowledged discrimination against nonwhite applicants for apartments at 31 housing projects and agreed to take steps to remedy that discrimination.
Mr. Menem, 82, who served two terms as president from 1989 to 1999, acknowledged signing secret decrees to export weapons to Venezuela and Panama, but said he had no idea that the tons of rifles and ammunition made in Argentina would end up in Ecuador and Croatia.
All the works involving animals were carried out in accordance with European directive 86/609/EEC governing animal welfare and protection, which is acknowledged by Italian Legislative Decree no.
Chalcedon adopted a decree declaring that Christ was to be "acknowledged in two natures, without being mixed, transmuted, divided, or separated".
Indeed, the Supreme Court has acknowledged that drafting an antitrust decree by necessity "involves predictions and assumptions concerning future economic and business events".
Mr. Menem acknowledged that he had signed decrees enabling the sales but said that the arms were supposed to be shipped to other countries.
