development
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Both sides hash it out at meetings of the fiscal court of Mason County, the primary government body overseeing the development.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The development of the spacecraft's landing legs was particularly difficult as gravity on Phobos is extremely low, according to Akinari Uehara, a Mitsubishi Electric engineer.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
It said it devalued parks and gardens and "makes them vulnerable to poorly informed development".
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The government is looking at strengthening national planning policy on "intentional unauthorised development", particularly for retrospective planning applications.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
As Kuhn rightly put it, ‘Scientific development is like Darwinian evolution, a process driven from behind rather than pulled toward some fixed goal towards which it grows ever closer.’
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Those developments have unleashed concerns in this Rhine River city, where Opel was once the mighty engine of prosperity.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
"We're also clear that unauthorised developments are completely unacceptable, and we've given councils like Basildon strong powers to tackle these including working closely with the police and taking court action."
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The Mid Bedfordshire by-election in 2023, won by Labour, drew attention to the lack of infrastructure on new housing developments and the Corby by-election of 2012 put the future of Kettering Hospital into the spotlight.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
But there are a number of developments that signal difficult times ahead.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
The ominous developments overseas added to the public’s worries.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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