Word: blueprint
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...Constitution is the most sought-after blueprint for governance around the globe, why do so many people here at home seem threatened by it? If American citizens cannot visit a shopping mall wearing T shirts that read PEACE ON EARTH, what message does that send about our ability to deal with the others who share this planet? It's no wonder we are running low on allies. We appear to have a national rage problem, and this is one we cannot blame on teenagers, skinheads or minorities! LYN STONE Cazenovia...
Looking back now, we recognize that Netscape was simply the blueprint, the unchoreographed start of what would become the greatest bull-market show in history. Taken to market by Frank Quattrone, the now fallen investment banker who would turn Silicon Valley greener than irrigation made the San Joaquin; nurtured by analyst Mary Meeker at Morgan Stanley, who would later admit that she was "trying to value companies without any historical valuation tools or rules;" and overfed by hyped-up traders who could buy stock online using their Netscape browser, this deal changed everything. We began to classify every company...
...opening act of Gulf War II did not proceed according to the Pentagon's carefully scripted blueprint--to begin the attack with a rapid push of ground troops, followed by a massive air assault designed to "shock and awe" the enemy into submission. That plan was pre-empted because of an intelligence bonanza that could have delivered the knockout punch before the opening bell. Acting on fresh information that came in hours before the deadline the U.S. President had set for Saddam to give up power, George W. Bush ordered U.S. forces to strike the Baghdad bunker where Saddam...
...Buruma, nothing in modern Japan is completely Japanese. Even the myth of a divine Emperor, he contends, was assembled using imported parts. The old samurai who wrote Japan's first constitution in 1889 borrowed the nation-building blueprint of Europe's wiliest soldier, Otto von Bismarck, transforming Shintoism from a nature cult into a unifying national faith by grafting on German dogmas of military discipline and national essence...
Paul S. Grogan, the author of Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival and Harvard’s former vice president for government, community and public affairs who oversaw the beginning of the report, praised the results yesterday...