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The mayor is still hoping to avoid staff cuts by securing financial relief from Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state Legislature, or by persuading the city’s employee unions to make financial concessions.

There’s a “good-sized” elk herd ranging just north of the ranches, Griffin said, and he keeps hoping that the department’s nonlethal hazing tactics will persuade the wolves to turn their attention to their natural prey.

Francis worked with Anglicans, Lutherans and Methodists and persuaded the Israeli and Palestinian presidents to join him to pray for peace.

Having displayed little desire for compromise or concessions up to this point, could Putin be persuaded that now is the moment to strike a deal?

Kazanjian persuaded Juda to keep some of the rarer items as-is, and will redesign a few others to give them a fresh look.