Countries were legally obliged to act, but only 140 have even submitted plans and only 16 have revised their plans since 1993.
Both finalists, Studio Daniel Libeskind and Think, a team led by Rafael Viñoly, Frederic Schwartz, Shigeru Ban and Ken Smith, have extensively revised their plans at the request of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
Indeed given the fact that we had an artificial boom we should expect a fall in GDP as a sign of recovery – it is a signal that entrepreneurs have revised their plans and are responding to a period of overconsumption.
Chilcot makes it clear that the armed forces should have "spoken truth to power", should have revised their plans and stopped to think – notably when Blair agreed to send thousands of British troops, of whom there was already a shortage in southern Iraq, to Afghanistan.
Responding to criticism from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and others, state education officials on Friday revised their plans for evaluating teachers so that up to 40 percent of their annual reviews could be based on students' scores on state standardized tests.
Seventeen states revised their plans in the middle of this fiscal year, cutting spending, cancelling or delaying capital projects, issuing more debt and, in four states, raising taxes (by more than 5% in Arizona and New Hampshire).Almost all had to draw on their reserves.
