Word: blueprint
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...Apple's online music store] clean our clock," says Stringer. "You've got to collect people who buy in to change-and if they don't, you have to move them. In the U.S., we cut 9,000 jobs and $700 million out of the budget. That's the blueprint. But it is not as easy to do this in Japan...
...small but growing group of architects and homeowners, however, is rejecting the notion that bigger homes mean better lives and for economic, environmental and aesthetic reasons is embracing mini houses, which are often under 1,000 sq. ft. Books like Alejandro Bahamón's Mini House, Michelle Kodis' Blueprint Small, Azby Brown's The Very Small Home and Ricorico's Mini House Style explore how small spaces can be put to ingenious uses. --By Lisa McLaughlin...
...redistricting and on drawing districts that are geographically and demographically consistent. The Redistricting Policy Group of the Institute of Politics has sought a non-partisan solution to the redistricting crisis. Comprised of more than twenty Harvard College students from a variety of political persuasions, we have formulated a blueprint for redistricting reform that we are introducing at the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum tonight at 6 p.m. Our plan would shift control of congressional redistricting into the hands of a nonpartisan commission independent from the state legislature. We layout several guidelines that commissioners should follow: every district should...
...lesson to be learned, says Novogratz, a former banker. "We want to understand how to build companies that effectively deliver critical goods and services," she says. "The more we can understand how to do that, the more effective we think we'll be in bringing forward a blueprint for change to the world." --By Barbara Kiviat
...arrangements. Ambitious architects are always reimagining whole cities along utopian lines, but the road to utopia has a way of becoming the path to hell. Think of Le Corbusier's Radiant City. His prescription for the ideal urban plan, isolated towers on wide plazas, turned out to be a blueprint for the deadliest kind of downtown and the worst sort of housing project...