And Vision Splendid has since confirmed that more than 35% of the directors in its new lineup will be women, with at least 60% meeting the gender-parity benchmark set by the Bechdel_test.
Decades-long efforts to develop Long Island City as a major office district received a bit of a boost last week with the news that Citigroup would move 700 employees from Lower Manhattan into a planned new 14-story building across the street from the company's 48-story tower, which has stood in splendid isolation since the late 1980's.
As for this curse called "the territories" or "the borders of the Promised Land" or "the tombs of our Patriarchs" -- depending on how you like to wear your straitjacket -- I shall simply state that ever since the splendid victory in the Six Day War, the State of Israel has been preoccupied with nothing but the territories -- with them, their metastases and their consequences.
For glamour, and tourists, Valencia now has a glistening modern "city of arts and sciences", including, since December, a splendid aquarium.
It is the postseason accomplishments that separate him from Fran Tarkenton, Dan Marino, Warren Moon and even John Elway and other splendid quarterbacks before, during and since Montana's playing time.
Ms. Borodina has given some splendid performances at the Met since her 1997 debut in Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov," but this captivating Isabella may be her best work to date.
She would have made a splendid chancellor of the exchequer since early on she saw the folly of an economy built on selling endless credit to people who could never pay it back.
Since that time, many splendid sculpture parks, museums and gardens have opened all over the country.
And last, the real lighthouse itself, perched since 1806 atop a splendid meeting of water and earth.
Following the birth, Pedro II received official congratulations at a formal reception held later that day, which according to a contemporary was an event "more splendid and better attended" than any since the Emperor was declared of age in 1840.
Since the war's end splendid roads have spread, along with a web of pylons bringing electricity.
