Word: planning
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...that time, the new Plan E charter stripped the mayor and City Council of almost all executive power, vesting it in the city manager, to be appointed by the council. The old voting system of wards and precincts was revamped and replaced with...
...same vein, Sachs believes that the Latin debt crisis will eventually ease. He considers a plan that Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady unveiled last spring, which calls for limited debt reduction, a modest but encouraging step. "There has been a lot of progress," Sachs says. "The thinking is much more realistic...
Before Bush flew to Central America to join regional leaders in Costa Rica on Friday, new details emerged about covert U.S. plans aimed at overthrowing Noriega in July and October 1988. These plans, the Administration noted, were blocked by some of the same Senators who last month criticized Bush as timid. Members of the Senate intelligence committee, both Democratic and Republican, defend their caution. One congressional source described the October plan as an ill-defined "hodgepodge." Committee spokesman James Currie added that conducting any high-risk covert operation just before a presidential election could unduly and unpredictably influence the election...
...Lebanon actually be nearing a peace accord? Under the auspices of the Arab League, Lebanon's parliament last week agreed on the outlines of a new national charter revising the distribution of political power, the issue at the root of the country's 14-year-old civil war. The plan, worked out in the Saudi city of Taif, won the endorsement of 58 of the 62 legislators present. Whereas Christians previously held 54 of parliament's 99 seats, an enlarged, 108-member legislature would be evenly divided between Muslims and Christians...
...wolf's listing as an endangered species is the important difference between a Park Service plan and one floated by Idaho's Senator McClure. McClure has a problem, which is that wolves have been sighted frequently in central Idaho. If packs from Canada establish themselves in Idaho, as they have in Montana's Glacier National Park, they will be protected as an indigenous endangered species. Instead, McClure's plan would de-list wolves immediately, and let state game laws treat them as predators, outside designated havens in Idaho's Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness and in Glacier and Yellowstone parks. Environmental groups...