Word: blueprinting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When President Nixon delivered his first major message on the environment to Congress last year, it contained 14 executive orders and 23 requests for legislative acts, the most comprehensive such program that a chief executive had ever proposed. Last week Nixon produced an even better blueprint, one clearly attuned to the "disturbing regularity" of assorted alarms (oil spills, mercury, smog). Whether the blueprint will become law remains to be seen...
What will he do behind bars? "I worry about keeping my health. I'm going to study. I'm going to learn about architecture. I want to be able to read a blueprint. I'm going to study accounting and literature. I'm going to come out a better man than I went in." When he gets out, perhaps in 18 months, Baker intends to write a book. "I want to make some positive suggestions for the improvement of the nation." Corny? Yes. Hypocritical? Maybe. A typical Bobby Bakerism? Certainly...
Barefoot Doctors. Despite the infighting, China's planners have reached a consensus on one "great strategic plan." It is a blueprint for comprehensive reform designed to change social, economic and educational life for decades to come. Though the long-term goal remains industrialization, the plan calls for an initial revitalization of rural life by moving urban industries and vast numbers of people to the countryside...
...most uncommon commoner Britain has ever produced. He abolished monarchial rule, reformed the law, drew the blueprint for religious freedom. Yet he was preceded by one King Charles and followed by another. His followers were reviled or executed; his anti-Catholicism was notorious. Oliver Cromwell described himself as "a miserable and wretched creature"-but as Lord Protector he strode through England as God's appointed messenger...
...Power of Fear. Unfortunately, this ambitious blueprint stands little chance of being followed. For one thing, Doxiadis predicts that Detroit will grow northward toward the St. Lawrence Seaway; at present, the Seaway is not attracting any surge of industry and the city is expanding faster in every other direction. To make matters worse, the 1,112 local governments in the Detroit region, jealous of their autonomy, have steadfastly refused to work together and show no signs of changing in the future...