The 20-plot development, conceived in 1992, didn't hit its initial stride until 2004, when Moscow's skyscraper-loving Mayor Yuri Luzhkov cut the ribbon on the first tower.

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After completing the next phase of development, he estimates Galaxy Macau would still have about half their land plot on Cotai available for future development.

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Katie Rosman has an inside look into how five years of development and testing plot lines on preschoolers gave rise to the anti-Cinderella.

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Tolkien's poetry enriches and complements not only the plot of the story but the development of his fictional world.

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In Matthew Weiner's 1960s-set serial - shown in the US on AMC and about to be a flagship series for the UK's Sky Atlantic - the focus is firmly on tone, mood and character development at the expense of plot-points.

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Plot-holders on an allotment in Bristol are campaigning to save the land from development after its owner went bust.

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When a local authority grants planning permission on a piece of land, the plot's value rises in line with the market's estimate of the value of the proposed development, and the value of neighbouring properties tends to fall.

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