Word: scenario
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...where the boys are from. A visitor would recognize no similarity between the impossibly quiet life of the mountain landscape and the bustle of a city that has become synonymous for unimaginable squalor and degradation. Its reputation transcends differences among cultures and continents but serves as a worst-case scenario for the human condition. For the rest of the world, it is only an abstract image of crowded and dirty nothingness--"New York subways are nearly as crowded as the streets of Calcutta," a recent article read--but for the people of the city, the world outside is equally foreign...
...there is one failing in the scenario, it is this: while very good at listening to those organized and educated residents of immediately adjacent areas, Harvard paid little or no attention to those in the city less articulate or less powerful. As a result, there is not a serious commitment to providing low or moderate income housing in the new project. That oversight can easily be remedied in future proceedings by involving representatives of the city's poorer areas...
Despite the dramatic appeal, only a handful of Faculty members spoke at that meeting. One of them, Harvey C. Mansfield, professor of Government, asked the Faculty to consider the following scenario (as recorded in the minutes of the February 10 meeting): "A woman, born with a silver spoon in her mouth, grew up to be unspeakably beautiful and married a man as rich and as handsome as Otto Eckstein. She attended Brearley School, Radcliffe College, and she got a Ph.D. from Harvard. Then when she went on the job market, she was not considered as an individual with her merits...
...there is one failing in the scenario, it is this: while very good at listening to those organized and educated residents of immediately adjacent areas, Harvard paid little or no attention to those in the city less articulate or less powerful. As a result, there is not a serious commitment to providing low or moderate income housing in the new project. That oversight can easily be remedied in future proceedings by involving representatives of the city's poorer areas...
...country, but it is hopelessly bogged down in the border war with Iraq, now a year old, and its ranks are split very much as the country is as a whole. Paradoxically, even the ailing Khomeini's opponents realize that his death might precipitate the very worst scenario. Predicts Banisadr: "It could provoke a terrible civil...