The corporation's other major HQ, MediaCityUK, can't be attributed to it in the same way as the Broadcasting House extensions – the BBC was merely the major tenant for a larger speculative scheme on the site of the former Salford docks, on the Manchester Ship Canal.
But critics countered that the project amounted to gentrification by decree and accused the city of engaging in a grandiose and speculative scheme at a time when it was struggling to pay teachers and firemen.
"It was both illogical and inconsistent for the judge to deny the self-same relief to the other claimants merely because they have chosen to pursue their claims with the assistance of Golden Eye under arrangements which the judge had previously found to be both lawful and not part of a speculative invoicing scheme," wrote Lord Justice Patten.
He became a writer after he failed as an entrepreneur, and kept being tempted back into speculative schemes.
He argued, further, that the moral fervour of the Revolution, and its vast speculative schemes of political reconstruction, were causing a devaluation of tradition and inherited values and a thoughtless destruction of the painfully acquired material and spiritual resources of society.
The financial regulatory system that emerged from the New Deal was meant to protect us from the recurrence of such a catastrophe by reducing the amount of borrowed money used by major financial institutions in speculative schemes.
Then came the financial crisis and the fateful decision to rescue many of the continent's creaking banks, which had lent heavily into property bubbles and other speculative schemes.
It should act under the promptings of specific tensions or specific possibilities, in close union with the detailed process of change, rather than in large speculative schemes involving extensive interference with the stable, habitual life of society.
The task of trying to delineate the specific character of historical knowledge and understanding, rather than of seeking to construct vast speculative schemes in the earlier manner, first began to attract the attention of philosophers toward the end of the 19th century.
Some of these hypotheses considered life as an emergent feature of nature and attempted to understand its origin by introducing principles of historical explanation, but most of these explanations went unnoticed, in part because they were incomplete, speculative schemes largely devoid of direct evidence and not subject to fruitful experimental testing.
Some of these hypotheses considered life as an emergent feature of nature and attempted to understand its origin by introducing principles of historical explanation, but most of these explanations went unnoticed, in part because they were incomplete, speculative schemes largely devoid of direct evidence and not subject to fruitful experimental testing (Lazcano 2010a).
