When she bought a £4m stake in a historic quarter of east London, Tracey Emin won local support with her plans to restore buildings and keep them in artisan use, to help stem the tide of commercial development flooding the East End.
But today the river, which courses 4,880 kilometers, or 3,032 miles, through portions of China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam before emptying into the South China Sea, is being rapidly transformed by the rising tide of economic development, the region's thirst for electricity and the desire to use the river as a cargo thoroughfare.
The cost was estimated at $5 million apiece, a high number in what was the high tide of Park Avenue luxury development.
And BlackBerry or Android users, don't fret: The rising tide of smartphone software development will most likely lift your boats before too long.
In some intertidal species that co-occur with G. caespitosa, eggs are spawned at low tide and development of embryos occurs at very high densities for at least one tidal cycle [41], [42], [43] but no field data specifically for G. caespitosa are available.
Artist Tracey Emin has spent millions on buying a large part of a historic quarter of east London, in an attempt to halt the tide of commercial and corporate development of an area with a unique architectural heritage and a strong artisan tradition.
And in search, too, of a romantic, everyday Britain that, from Millwall to Manchester, was vanishing under a tide of crude public and private development.
During her tenure, Mrs. Sims steered the transition of the Cos Cob power plant from coal- to oil-fired burners, reducing pollution; championed subsidized housing for the elderly; and fought to preserve Greenwich's residential character in the face of corporate development and a tide of commuting traffic, an increasing concern in a town long known as a quiet bastion of old-money wealth.
For Egypt's leftists and liberals, the development inspired a tide of irreverent jokes at his expense on social media.
