Word: planner
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...more manageable 5%, and some schools, including the entire California state system, actually lowered tuition. But for most families the damage had been done. "Even the low increases in tuition this year were twice the rate of inflation," says Jonathan Satovsky, a New York City- based financial planner with American Express, "much higher than most families can prepare...
...politics and diplomacy. Now the Pope is also exploring a visit to Iraq. ROGER CARDINAL ETCHEGARAY, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, was recently in Baghdad to bemoan the "perverse" impact of the economic sanctions against Iraq. But Etchegaray--who is the Vatican's chief planner for the 2,000th-anniversary celebrations--was also laying groundwork for a papal visit. The thinking is that the Pope will visit biblical sites, including Ur, the birthplace of Abraham, in present-day Iraq. Other tantalizing events for 2000, in the talking stage, are a summit meeting for world Christian leaders...
Roger Cardinal Etchegaray, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, was recently in Baghdad to bemoan the "perverse" impact of the economic sanctions against Iraq. But Etchegaray -- who is the Vatican's chief planner for the 2,000th-anniversary celebrations -- was also laying groundwork for a papal visit. The thinking is that the pope will visit biblical sites, including Ur, the birthplace of Abraham, in present-day Iraq. Other tantalizing events for 2000, in the talking stage, are a summit meeting for world Christian leaders and an interreligious gathering, Jews and Muslims included, on Egypt's Mount Sinai...
...also a city planner. "Modern town planning comes to birth with a new architecture," he wrote in a book titled simply Urbanisme. "By this immense step in evolution, so brutal and so overwhelming, we burn our bridges and break with the past." He meant it. There were to be no more congested streets and sidewalks, no more bustling public squares, no more untidy neighborhoods. People would live in hygienic, regimented high-rise towers, set far apart in a parklike landscape. This rational city would be separated into discrete zones for working, living and leisure. Above all, everything should be done...
...their final forty-eight hours in Florida, the three teams worked furiously to complete their projects. On Thursday, March 26, the teams presented their plans to a panel, which included two representatives from Archbold Biological Station and the Highlands County Planner, Duane Niederman...