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...White House's plan establishes an array of reserves encompassing key watersheds and old-growth stands, an innovative strategy intended to protect the most ecologically essential areas of the forests and thereby preserve the habitat of spotted owls, salmon and countless other species. The blueprint allows for average annual timber harvests of 1.2 billion bd. ft. -- less than one-third of the mid-'80s peak of 5 billion bd. ft. a year. Administration projections put job losses at fewer than 10,000, not quite the apocalyptic vision of the timber companies. But neither the $1.2 billion for worker retraining...
...biggest departure from the original blueprint is in the last third. Grisham's detached, careful trail to an explosive conclusion is replaced by direct, face-to-face confrontations in which Mitch and the others involved are in physical danger. The Mafia are portrayed as merely a client of the firm--an important client, to be sure, but not one with familial ties. The ending, which I won't give away, is also...
Despite the legacy of hatred, negotiations have progressed with a smoothness that few would have predicted when Mandela was released from prison in 1990. Although many important issues remain unresolved, the blueprint for the country's political future has been drawn, and in the coming weeks negotiators hope to complete the details. The next move should be the appointment as early as this month of a multiparty Transitional Executive Council that will have no executive authority but will oversee De Klerk's government policies to ensure their nonpartisan nature. When South Africans finally go to the polls, they will elect...
CYBERTECH: Microsoft's Blueprint for the Future...
...love-fests." He impressed legislators by knowing their names and speaking in complete sentences, qualities often lacking in Reagan and Bush, respectively. And the goodwill continued through the introduction of his ambitious budget proposal, with Congress congratulating him on making tough choices and then hastening to pass a blueprint of the plan...