Word: scenically
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...cater to the individual tastes of their customers, banks have long printed checks in a wide spectrum of colors. More recently some have begun to offer checks with floral or scenic backgrounds. Now the modest-sized Bank of Marin in Marin County, Calif., has gone one step further. Its customers can simply bring in their own photograph or drawing and have them printed onto a standard check form...
Former Budget Director Charles Schultze lists some other unproductive expenditures: the building of giant dams that yield little economic return, even in terms of lower power costs, but harm the environment by flooding areas of great scenic beauty; irrigation projects that subsidize the growing in Western deserts of crops for which the Agriculture Department is trying to cut acreage elsewhere; farm price supports that benefit mostly higher-income farmers; subsidies to general aviation that aggravate airport congestion by encouraging private flying. The nation can no longer afford such extravagances, but they continue because they are promoted by powerful self-interest...
...tombs and the Great Wall. Pat is expected to tour a children's hospital, a school, a factory, the Summer Palace and Peking's shops. But off-limits, as they have been for more than 20 years even to most Chinese, will be some of the most scenic areas, among them the idyllic Central-South Lakes, where Mao Tse-tung lives in a one-story house...
...Harvard were to announce that it did not intend to give up the land and would fight in court if necessary, it might find itself with enough allies to break the project." Diamond said, adding that several members of Scenic Hudson are Harvard alumni...
...Scenic Hudson has been in touch with members of the University on several occasions. Diamond said, and generally met with two attitudes. "It's an interesting split. There are some who wish Harvard would stay in the Square, and other who feel that if Harvard would have to go to the moon and build there, fine...