Word: developable
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Pollitt: This is an area where the charity sector is continuing to develop effective measures of the impact of community projects. There are ways to assess success by looking at outcomes. If it's a venture-capital project, how much business is created? How many jobs are created? The best companies do employ these methods...
CHIP SHOT New York Representative John McHugh (R) set aside $100,000 to help develop a nine-hole public golf course into a year-round resort...
...annual rate of 12%. Skyscrapers and vast shopping malls are springing up alongside the 28 million new trees that have been planted in an attempt to counteract the 3 million vehicles that clog the city's streets and whose fumes contribute to pollution so bad that new arrivals invariably develop a racking cough that can plague them for months. More than anything else, perhaps, it is the human tide sweeping Beijing that is remaking the city, with migrant workers from tiny villages in every corner of China standing wide-eyed on the streets, lured by the hundreds of thousands...
...vision, encouraging people the world over, including many in China, to think of the new giant in a new way. Has such scrutiny changed China? At the margin, perhaps. But in its essentials--in the deeply held belief among China's leaders that China must be allowed to develop its society, its cities, its human rights and its politics in its own way and at its own speed...
...that the administrators in charge of pushing General Education afforded themselves vacations in lieu of taking even baby steps in the march to implement the new curriculum. Reinvigorating Harvard’s Core will require a Herculean effort, and sloth is not an option. This delay in curricular development has already had consequences for the newest crop of freshmen. When the Class of 2011 arrived on campus, their revamped advising system contained hardly a mention of Gen Ed, but many a mention of the Core. “We were taught to act as if there is no such thing...