Once you've gone through the adrenaline rush of announcing your shiny plans to friends and family, and hopefully getting loads of attention for your efforts, you will find yourself, in all likelihood, bored and alone – just you and your crazy idea to launch your own political party/range of Dalek-shaped biscuits/HBO sitcom.
Among the most compromised among us, or the most exhausted, or timorous — or something — are journalists like Janine Roth Meryl Streepp), whom Irving has summoned to his office so he can pitch her a shiny new war plan.
IF all goes according to plan, the shiny ball will drop at midnight on New Year's Eve in Times Square, to the tooting of horns and the wild screams of the jubilant throng.
I'm showing the latter; it's better for intricate patterns and you'll end up with a truly flat surface - ideal for a drinks table. 1 Cut a piece of brown paper to fit your surface and draw a pattern on the less shiny side. 2 Plan the colours and pick the tiles; you can use glass, ceramic or mirror.
Most of its planes would inevitably be lost or damaged, so Mr al Mishari was planning a shiny new post-war fleet.
Another yuppie arcadia of shiny apartments marketed, off-plan, as development opportunities overseas.
For teens, buy them the shortest time membership possible for an online games account or pay for the first three months of the most expensive plan on the shiny new cell phone you've just given them.
Plans for a shiny new capital may win Mr Sisi headlines, but kick-starting these engines of growth would do more for his people.
The kind of brand experience that might be planned for the shiny, reopened mill will not, as with its first incarnation, be selling something actually produced in the building.
Yet some food retailers are starting the year with big plans to build shiny new stores and renovate old ones.
