Local communities make a bad situation worse by using planning laws, such as minimum plot size, to exclude low-income families. (Many ritzy suburbs will not allow a property to have a second kitchen for fear that the owner might take in tenants.) Meanwhile, many of the same communities compete to attract high-value commercial developments.
There is no plot as such and what story there is resists any kind of summary.
Although in this particular case, there was never any danger of the plot coming to fruition, since the only people that Ferdaus was working with were undercover FBI agents, it does beg the question as to whether such a plot could succeed in the first place.
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Some have been easy for the Vatican to dismiss, such as an anonymous memo outlining a Borgia-esque plot to kill the pope, which struck most people as almost comical in its implausibility.
On January 1, 2008, fourteen years after the start of the Zapatista uprising and the signing of NAFTA, the remaining tariffs on products including corn, beans, and milk were taken down, a move that may have benefited Mexican consumers looking for inexpensive groceries, but harmed small-plot farmers in places such as Chiapas.
However, startups are appearing that provide tools to inform and streamline such decision-making processes, such as Noodle.org, which helps people plot out their education path, factoring in money, interests and numerous other determinants.
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Haydn Shaughnessy runs Five Ideas, a boutique research agency using unique semantic techniques to plot attitudinal changes from online social sources such as blogs and social networks.
While the plot may recall other allegorical crossings (such as the one that the Knight, the Squire and the circus family undertake in Ingmar Bergman's film "The Seventh Seal"), the power of Blackburn's book lies in her language and in her ability to conjure images that are at once spooky and heart-rending.
The plot may have been targeting a major transportation center, such as a large railroad or subway station, sources close to the investigation said last week.
In the land on the sides of these roads, local Mexican small-plot farmers and industrial farms produce coffee for major brands such as Nescafe and Starbucks.
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Fortunately, Mr. Walsh's book is strong enough to overcome this weakness, and "Once" is structured in such a way that the musical numbers serve as interludes instead of driving the plot (which they are far too bland to do in any case).
The project was commissioned by longtime Lucasfilm producer Rick McCallum, who enlisted writers such as "Battlestar Galactica's" Ron Moore and swore them to NDA secrecy on the plot details (more on the show's storyline below).
In addition to the character-based selection, "Just for Kids" displays rows of TV shows and movies organized by easy-to-understand genres such as superheroes, princesses, dinosaurs and girl power, featuring clear and simple descriptions of the plot of each title.
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The press wondered how two such taciturn men as Coolidge and his Treasury secretary, Andrew Mellon, managed to chat long enough to plot a tax crusade.
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