Word: planner
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...ever concede--particularly if the participants don't seem to know it. And there's no place the fighting is growing more pointless than in the ongoing smackdown between evolutionists and advocates of intelligent design--the theory that the emergence of life must have been guided by a sentient planner...
...learned that salvation would soon be here. I was invited to a Facebook event: “FREE BURRITO DAY: Another Big Day for Chipotle in New England.” On March 6, the wait would finally be over. I wrote the date down in my planner, circled it vigorously, and told all my friends. I started dreaming of camping out all night and placing my order. Yes, I’ll have some extra guacamole. Free soda? Why, thank...
...Chief Planner for the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) Kairos Shen said that in the coming months communication between the city, Harvard, and Allston residents would be essential...
...these new suburbs in Shanghai, mine included, bill themselves as environmentally friendly. And relatively speaking, they are. There is green space here - large grassy parks and small lawns, which don't exist in the city. But things have hardly started yet. I recently asked a retired Shanghai city planner how much thought had gone into the environmental consequences of the Short March. He sighed. "We know people will probably have to drive more. There will be more cars on the streets everywhere. But there are other important factors to consider." Such as? He paused, and just rotated the forefinger...
...China's move to the suburbs is critical not just to the country's economic future, but also to its politics. As the retired city planner said, there is nothing more important to the central government than making sure economic growth continues, and that the benefits of that growth are spread widely. More than anything, this is what gives the communist leadership legitimacy. All across China, towns like New Songjiang are built on the backs of migrant workers - people who have moved from other provinces to earn better money as construction workers. An estimated 114 million workers in China...