Word: scheme
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...city, taking in every nook and cranny of its involved history, from the 9th century confrontation of "Wilfred the Hairy" and "Charles the Bald" to the Postmodernist affectations of today's Catalan renaissance (the Olympic Village for this summer's Games, Hughes notes, was named after a Utopian socialist scheme of the last century that fizzled disastrously). In the Middle Ages, Catalan was probably more spoken around the Mediterranean than French, Italian or Spanish, and the Catalan empire had consulates in 126 places; later Barcelona was the home of the first submarine and the world capital of anarchism. Discoursing with...
After months of intense negotiations, Cambridge and state transportation officials are expected to reach an agreement on an alternative plan to Scheme Z within a few days, Councillor Alice K. Wolf said yesterday...
...Scheme Z was designed to run part of theCentral Artery underground. Under the plan, a16-lane, 11-story highway and four bridgesconstructed over the Charles River would connectthe Central Artery with the interstate highwaysystem...
...plan is an absolute improvement overScheme Z," Wolfsaid. "Scheme Z represented both avisual and environmental blight...
...Upper East Side brownstone with more than boxes, saved money for the first time in her life, taken up an exercise regimen, untangled her relationship with multimillionaire Mortimer Zuckerman, and learned to relax, but why should anyone care? Unless, of course, she decides it matters in the broader scheme of promoting self- actualization. More than a tinge of naivete colors this side of Steinem, whose struggle to balance her public and private lives has hardly been waged behind closed doors. Yet her sensitivity is not without cause. Many reviewers have given short shrift to or virtually ignored the political implications...