Plan
Plans prescribe proposed methods of moving towards or achieving one or more objectives[?] or goals.Often structured, plans can occur in projects, diplomacy, careers, economic development, military campaigns or in the conduct of some business.
The discipline of planning has occupied great minds and theoreticians. Concepts such as top-down planning[?] (as opposed to bottom-up planning) reveal similiarities with the systems thinking behind the Top-Down Model.
Economic planning became an important discipline in the Soviet Union and in Japan -- in the West the word "planner" may rather evoke images of town planning.
In military usage, the grand structured pre-set plans of World War I became the more flexible and less pretentious limited-objective operations of World War II and later.
Notable plans include:
- The Schlieffen Plan
- The Five-Year Plan system in the former Soviet Union
- The Marshall Plan
- The much-heralded U.S. plan to invade Iraq
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after they had bidden farewell to their friends and fellows of the
valleys under the long grey downs; and the garths where the last
the daws were busy in the tall unfrequent ash-trees; and the green
and the paigles were blooming now, and the harebells were in flower
their blossom over sheep-walk and water-meadow.
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Portway; but presently were the ranks of war disordered and broken up
or brother or lover out of the throng to the way that led speediest
Host together any longer, but suffered each man to go to his home,
the Steer, would suffice for a company if any need were, and they
the road and the lanes and the meadows, and the men of the Upper Dale
with the throng of women and children that had come out to meet them.
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