Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have pushed to the back of their minds the dark shadows of two world wars. They have promised to unite what they hope will be a new Germany. One way to make certain that the result is a European Germany will be for the Europeans to complete the unification blueprint they agreed on in Ottawa last week...
University administrators have billed the capital campaign as Harvard's blueprint for the future, saying that the decisions made now will inform the identity and goals of this institution for decades to come. Still, as deans and their committees decide what Harvard should spend money on in the coming years, most University fundraisers acknowledge that these academic decisions will be tempered by external and nonacademic financial considerations. What donors are willing to fund and how those donors envision Harvard may well affect the real outcome of the University's academic priorities...
...candidate members of the Central Committee and more than a hundred guests to join in expressing their views. This time the response was a unanimous show of hands. The platform, which still must be approved by the party's congress this summer, is not so much a specific blueprint as a rough sketch for reform. Some Central Committee members complained that they received the document only when they arrived for the plenum -- suggesting that it was either drafted in haste or deliberately held back to put conservative forces at a disadvantage. The major points...
MOSCOW--Communist Party leaders added an unexpected third day to their pivotal meeting yesterday and sent President Mikhail S. Gorbachev back to the drawing board to fill in holes in his blueprint for ending the party's monopoly on power...
...Warsaw the new year brought the implementation of an unprecedented plan to transform the Polish economy into a capitalist one. The cold turkey blueprint is well drafted, but initially it is likely to accelerate the nation's hyperinflation and cause serious unemployment and widespread bankruptcies. In Sofia the communist government held its first set of talks with opposition leaders. But already the new government was faced with another challenge: a countrywide general strike and mass protests against the restoration of religious and cultural freedom to the country's minority Turks. Havel's government set out on a course of economic...