In their rush, some tear down old houses and block shoreline vistas to erect big luxury homes known derisively as McMansions.
Yes, yes, I know: mayors of all stripes put on concerts there, and also erect big screens on which events of some sort or other are displayed.
This allows customers to redeploy their own engineers to the next big thing.Sarnoff's Mr Cherukuri calls this "the globalisation of innovation"—continuing the erosion in the past 20 years of the old model of corporate R&D, dominated by big firms with big budgets able to erect big barriers to entry to their markets.
It was the original nom de guerre of a gang of jerks who have vowed to help British Islamophobes oppose any plans the Muslims might have to erect big, fat mosques in their particular enclave of Albion.
It was the original nom de guerre of a gang of jerks who have vowed to help British Islamophobes oppose any plans the Muslims might have to erect big, fat mosques in their particular enclave of Great Britain.
Most of it is token gestures by developers in return for erecting bigger, taller buildings.
His tough approach to separatism was codified last year in the Clarity Act, which erects big legal obstacles to any break-up of Canada.
For the better part of the session, the justices seemed keen to grant localities a measure of discretion in regulating their signage; Justice Anthony Kennedy, for one, implied that it would be perfectly reasonable to prevent an "affluent person" from erecting big signs reading "Happy Birthday, Fred" all over town.
When the government finally did respond, moved in part by the ugly episode of July 1961, it did just about the only thing it seemed to know how to do in those days: condemning the decrepit housing, razing it and erecting big public institutions on the vacant lots.
What kind of person goes about erecting big gaudy skyscrapers, and then putting his own name on them, in letters 12 feet tall?
