Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think we still have the same sort of question marks," Crimson coach Bill McCurdy said after the meet. "Their [Brown's] weaknesses complemented our weaknesses remarkably. If I had sent down a blueprint, we couldn't have done any better...
Removing the mystique of a meaningful, message-laden blueprint leaves a mere bunch of letters--letters as alphabetical characters, letters as missives; Barth gleefully invests his puns with more significance than they deserve...
...southwestern United States is a "blueprint" for this policy. Four of the country's ten largest coal stripmines, surrounded by five of the largest coal-fired power plants, are located in the Four Corners area, where Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico come together. Most of this land is owned by the Navajo Nation, which exports electricity through high-voltage power lines to metropolitan centers of New Mexico, Arizona Nevada, Utah and southern California. "The annual output is enough to supply the needs of the state of New Mexico for 32 years," according to Navjo tribal chairman Peper MacDonald...
...blueprint, perfected by the Southwest experience, is now being adapted to the Northern Plains. One of the first of many projects is an 800 kilovolt (kv) transmission line from Underwood, North Dakota, to Delano, Minnesota, linking into the Midcontinental Area Power Pool, a grid system of public and privately-owned utilities and members of the National Electrical Reliability Council. From Underwood the line is direct current; at Delano it is converted into three separate 345 kv alternating current lines and fed into the power grid...
...dubbed the "Mork and Mindy" of the left in a column by Conservative George Will-call for participation by workers and consumers in the making of corporate policies. Just how this would be accomplished is unclear even to Hayden. Says he: "We have more of a vision than a blueprint...