Word: fruition
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...Square land mogul who owned the parking lot until last Monday, only agreed to sell the land after it appeared his long-standing efforts to develop it into something really impressive--twin 20-story towers--pressive--twin 20-story towers--pressive--twin 20-story towers--would never come to fruition...
...wildflower, which they took home and improved and now sell back to Americans for fancy sums. Indeed, argues White, goldenrod, which has 54 native species and grows in every state of the Union, should be adopted as the national flower (the U.S. has none). If that should come to fruition, the flower should of course be rechristened Solidagowhiteana. -Michael Demarest
...this country. (Northwestern Uni versity staged The Knot Garden in 1974.) Although U.S. orchestras are increasingly taking up his instrumental works, his acceptance here lags behind even his late blooming in England. Tippett says he al ways knew it would take him a lifetime to come to artistic fruition. And, he adds, -T was always arrogant enough to know I'd get there in the end." The Ice Break emphatically confirms that...
...forms, dance has experienced perhaps the greatest growth during the past decade. The bold experiments in modern dances during the '60s have come to fruition in the '70s; audiences regularly pack theaters to see such well-known troupes as Alvin Ailey, Merce Cunningham, and Pilobilus. And the trend toward innovation has so spread that now companies in back-country towns like Northampson, Mass. perform works once restricted to New York's Greenwich Village. Fifteen years ago dance in Boston meant the Boston Ballet, which recently staged Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty"; today the number of dance and ballet companies...
...policy dilemmas that has faced the United States since World War II--the establishment of diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. The recognition of the most populous country in the world is none too soon in coming. Carter's decision, bringing seven years of negotiations to fruition, is a much-needed step to resolve the confusion and haphazardness that has characterized America's China policy for the last 30 years...