Word: recast
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...ideology the Downtown Plan is sensibly deferential to the existing warp and woof of the city. In ambition, however, it is reminiscent of the Olympian urban-renewal texts of a generation ago, when planners presumed to know how to recast cities from scratch. It puts the city on record against unnecessary shadow and wind and disapproves of mirrored windows (visually off-putting), big street-level airline ticket offices (too boring for pedestrians) and the profusion of newspaper-vending machines (inconvenient for pedestrians). No San Franciscan, the plan continues, should have to walk more than 900 feet to find a sunny...
While expansion pits the University’s past against its future, continuing negotiations with residents about the implementation of the agreement offer the University a chance to recast its image...
...starting in February. The House of Commons invoked the Parliament Act, a rarely used veto, to overrule opposition from the upper House of Lords. The ban applies to England and Wales. Fresh Questions EUROPEAN UNION Just as the European Parliament finally approved Commission President José Manuel Barroso's recast team, a new embarrassment emerged: Frenchman Jacques Barrot, the new Commissioner for Transport, was found guilty in 2000 of "abuse of confidence" in connection with a party funding scandal. Barrot was pardoned by French President Jacques Chirac and his conviction was expunged. Another Roundup SPAIN Police arrested 19 suspected members...
...there’s a lot of interest in people taking on the project themselves and coordinating maybe with local cultural institutions,” says Shapins, “we have this very simple gallery in a box we call it where we can take the database and recast it in a very presentable way that people can gather around and see the artwork displayed...
...Senate among 99 other aspiring Presidents for 19 years before launching a bid for the White House that this time a year ago saw him barely twitching at about 10% in the polls, had shown exactly the kind of toughness his opponents claimed he lacked. He mortgaged his house, recast his team, renovated virtually every position he had ever taken and shook the grave dust off his suit several times before arriving at history's door. And then it closed in his face on a day when for a moment it had seemed to blow wide open...