Planners, over a period of weeks, began building one of the largest missions of its kind.
The so-called planners over in Jersey did it on purpose, I am convinced, to keep out undesirables like me.
But Larry Silverstein, the tower's developer, had been struggling for months with the planners over whether he would pay for the latticed top.
Despite the severe handicaps, the planners, over the course of the next week swiftly reconfigured large swaths New Yorks labyrinthine subway system, dramatically altering a once familiar landscape.
Mr. Espinosa Chepe, who joined Castro's revolutionary government in the early 1960s and was once head of the powerful Office of Agrarian Reform, had frequently clashed with fellow economic planners over policies he considered overly dogmatic.
Though some Indiana residents continue to be at loggerheads with planners over bridge tolls, a primary source of the project's financing, most viewed the settlement as the smoothing out of the last substantial legal challenge.
How else to describe the discussions by Republican convention planners over whether to ask such unlikely participants as the rock groups Smash Mouth and Goo Goo Dolls to perform during the four-day event?
With that turn, a certain cat-and-mouse game developed between the networks and the convention planners over how much of the action on the main convention stage would be beamed directly into Americans' living rooms unfiltered, especially in earlier, prime-time hours, before the top-billed speaking slate begins.
The center's open areas— Rockefeller Plaza, the sunken forum that was later to be come a skating rink and the "Channel Gardens," so named because they separated the low‐rise British and French buildings on Fifth Avenue— have won the most lavish praise of critics and planners over the years.
