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...built from scratch. Imagine a marshy coastal strip filled with paddy fields and fishing villages transformed into a megalopolis within a few short years. Shenzhen is just that place, a 126-sq.-mi. serpentine swath opposite Hong Kong that still has the raw look of a city halfway between blueprint and reality. Apartment high-rises border unpaved roads, while open trenches pose a hazard to the unwary. In the shadow of the International Trade Center, at 54 stories China's tallest building, are mounds of dirt coughed up by the excavation. Construction cranes scratch the sky, the air is full...
...policy advocated by Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, a fan of free-market solutions. But after White House Chief of Staff Baker swapped jobs with Regan in February, the Administration began taking a more active role. Less than a month after the Plaza Hotel meeting, Baker unveiled yet another ambitious blueprint for repairing the global economy, this time a plan to defuse the Third World debt bomb. Baker contended that previous stop-gap efforts to solve the problem relied too much on austerity measures that prevented developing countries from rebuilding their economies. Speaking to a conference of 9,000 moneymen...
...think that Harvard has used every opportunity to interpret the agreement to its benefit,” says Carol Bankerd, referring to the University’s plan to extend an underground parking garage beyond the blueprint of its building near Mather, which will result in the removal of a number of trees...
Hyman led many of Mass. Hall’s major activities this semester, including the release of the Allston Science and Technology Task Force’s academic blueprint and the expansion of the central administration to include three more senior posts overseeing faculty recruitment, Harvard’s international activities, and University-wide research policy...
...during that summer, Borowitz says he felt his creativity as a writer was being stifled in Hollywood, and he looked to start a new career in which he could communicate more directly with his reader, rather than “producing a blueprint for the actors” and, “working as a hired...