During the London blitz, planners projected that up to 4 million civilians might have breakdowns – in the event, psychiatric admissions fell and strangers formed self-organising communities in bomb shelters.
In just 17 days, an army of 10,000 volunteers, including former President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter, built 85 low-cost houses, one of the nonprofit group's biggest "blitz build" projects.
Even a simple little three-character play like "Driving Miss Daisy," in its current Broadway incarnation, is getting blitzed with projected images, outsize pictures of racist signs from the segregated South and footage of civil rights workers.
For the project, Blitz Games assigned two project managers for the games, Chris Swan and John Jarvis.
But despite this public relations blitz, the hurdles to project approval are rising, and community opposition is growing.
The survey is called the Bush Blitz and is a combined project of the Australian government, BHP Billiton Sustainable Communities and Earthwatch Australia.
Behind the pro-Gerawan blitz is the Center for Worker Freedom, a project of Americans for Tax Reform and led by the anti-government activist Norquist, architect of last fall's Republican shutdown of the federal government.
His comments came during a media blitz surrounding the Clinton Global Initiative University, a project of his nonprofit foundation.
Symptomatic of this fascination: A recent media blitz was stirred to life over a project that aims to use synthetic biology to create glowing plants.
Based on this evidence, the project embarked on a training blitz of all medical colleges and public health physicians at the district and sub-district level, as well as 8000 village doctors in their role as trainers for the more than 200,000 informal providers.
