Word: planner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question of who maimed New York City has become Newfield's obsession. He is concerned not only with immediate injury-the 30-month-long fiscal crisis-but with chronic economic and social ailments. The Abuse of Power is his answer. Though written with Paul Du Brul, a city planner, the book's thesis is pure Newfield: the city was not merely short-shrifted by federal policy, let down by feckless mayors and leeched by the unions. The case was, and remains, an exercise in gang rape with enough perpetrators to fill a penitentiary...
Donald A. Warner, a policy planner in charge of indoor modifications for the disabled, said yesterday that Harvard is seeking a long-term permanent solution. Wooden ramps, for instance, will give way to concrete ones, he said...
...help their own recoveries. Japan and Germany are reluctant to adopt any major stimulus program for much the same inflationary worries that led Carter to withdraw the rebate. Some experts are relieved that "reflation" will not be made an issue by Carter, at least formally. Says one White House planner: "Pushing them [Japan and Germany] is probably the wrong tactical move...
...decided five years ago to preside over an enviable rebirth on the Detroit River. The big "catalyst," as Ford put it, would be construction of the $337 million Renaissance Center, consisting of shops, offices and the world's tallest hotel, all designed by John Portman, the Atlanta architect-planner-financier...
This massive exercise in suspended disbelief works because the early reels are leisurely devoted to showing how certain interesting coincidences fall into place for the mission's chief planner (Robert Duvall, being excellent again), and how this entirely reasonable fellow begins to fall under the spell of lucky chance. He is in effect the audience's surrogate. Once all his questions have been answered, it seems churlish, indeed downright ungrateful, not to go along with him and the plot he is spinning...