The latest development dispute in Dumbo involves a proposal that has, for many residents, tinges of a Faustian bargain.
The main snag involved a proposal to set up a fund to buy some of the 39 trillion yen $311 billionn) in stocks held by Japanese banks.
An early example of FastWorks in action involved a proposal by GE's engineers for a five-year, $500m project to upgrade its H-class gas turbine.
Another issue that has not been clearly resolved involves a proposal to allow tenants in family housing projects to own pets.
The dispute involves a proposal by an upstate developer, Dean Gitter, to build a five-star resort on 2,000 acres he owns on opposite sides of Belleayre Mountain, where the state also maintains a ski center.
In the New York area, the dispute centered on longstanding guaranteed annual income provisions, and in Philadelphia and Baltimore and some other ports issues involved a proposal by a shipowner's organization for a lower wage scale for new employees.
One of the more contentious unresolved issues involves a proposal by Representative Lazio to allow mayors or county executives to assume direct control of poorly run housing authorities, upon the permission of the Housing Secretary.
One count involves a proposal Mr. Rowland is accused of offering another Republican candidate for Congress in 2010, Mark Greenberg, which was never carried out, that would have routed Mr. Rowland's fees for advising the campaign through Mr. Greenberg's animal shelter.
Grant Lamond suggests that the wrongness of wrongful coercion derives from the fact that it involves a "proposal deliberately to impose a disadvantage on another" (Lamond 2000, 49).
