The chief item in the development program was a plan to devote 3 million acres (1.2 million hectares) of land to the production of peanuts (the Groundnuts Scheme).
However, it is clear that the monasteries, chief items in Sikkim's meager architectural heritage, were the hardest hit buildings in the quake.
The landowner usually furnished the chief capital items, possibly including livestock.
Maybe, just maybe, the Victorian urban model, with its industrious hives, its network of connections and great spaces and generous parks, will be as relevant to the new information age as it was to the century when slaves and cotton and steam pumps were chief items of exchange.
Her intervention came on the penultimate day of a first round of talks in Geneva between the government and opposition delegations that has seen unexpected progress on a ceasefire, a patchy extension of humanitarian aid inside Syria, but almost no progress on the chief agenda item opening a dialogue about Syria's political future.
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