If Tiananmen Square is a monument to the Maoist policy of self-sufficiency, the Olympic Green, ten miles and fifty years away, is an architectural statement of intent every bit as clear — a testament to the global ambitions of the world's fastest-growing major economy.
If Tiananmen Square is a monument to the Maoist policy of self-sufficiency, the Olympic Green, ten miles and fifty years away, is an architectural statement of intent every bit as clear a testament to the global ambitions of the world's fastest-growing major economy.
On foreign land, this monument to wrong-headed policy takes a particularly bloody and bellicose form.
A new shipyard and wind-power plants rise among the mangroves.Suape is a monument to federal money, industrial policy and an alliance between Lula and Eduardo Campos, Pernambuco's ambitious governor.
In "Power Authority Unveils Pair of 100-Foot Wind Turbines" (In Brief, Jan . 30, Richard M. Kessel, chairman of the Long Island Power Authority, called the defunct Shoreham nuclear power plant "a modern-day Stonehenge, a multibillion-dollar monument to a failed energy policy".
Among them are orders and memos asking for studies about agriculture, federal education policy and national monuments.
"The Archway roundabout is a huge, historical monument to the failure of that policy.
The Obama administration also insists its policy of designating national monuments is economically beneficial, pointing to the $646bn spent each year by visitors to America's wilderness areas.
The city refused, then adopted a policy for displaying privately donated monuments that excluded Summum's proposal.
Even in the face of Trump's frenetic efforts to erase other parts of Obama's legacy on multiple policy fronts, his call for 'ending abuse of monument designation' stands out.
Indeed, both in its policy vision and its philosophical premises, the slide show represents a monument to certain trends in contemporary liberalism.
