Word: overlaying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...area already has an historic district status, which will protect it from the impact of mass tourism that could alter the Harvard Square area where there is currently no overlay of zoning protection for environmental controls...
...Cambridge Planning Board (CPB) held a public hearing last night at City Hall on its own petition to create a Harvard Square Overlay District, designed to limit commercial development in and around the Square...
...proposed that the zoning ordinance of the City be amended so that the overlay district would supercede existing regulations in the following respects...
Orwell's work needs no theoretical overlay mostly because he has an incredible eye for apt detail. He is convincing because he picks up on minor items that are perfect illustration of his points. The details may be improbable or commonplace, but are always appropriate. His approach is almost always tangential to his subject and his attitudes are implicit in what he writes. On occasion he publicly declared his bias, but even he relied mainly on apt illustration or pointed allusion to make his stance clear...
Year after year the delegations of high officials, Congressmen and their dignitaries would arrive in Salgon and, still dizzy from the trip, would receive massive, two or three-hour briefings from colonels with seven overlay charts, then dine with the ambassador or the commanding general, those tall noble Anglo-Saxons who emanated all the confidence of surgeons to their patients. The next day they would be issued green fatigues and flown around by daredevil helicopter pilots to spend (but for the air trip) an unalterably boring day visiting hamlets with pig farms, maternity clinics, 'miracle rice' plots, and children washed...