In place of minor structural repairs and modest cosmetic changes envisioned earlier, the new program calls for complete retiling and painting, improved lighting and signs, electrical and mechanical work, new plumbing and drainage and reconfigured turnstile areas to reduce fare evasion.

Still, to a large extent it is her park, a reflection of her relentless drive to turn what had become a dusty, dangerous wasteland into an emerald miracle, the urban gem that Frederick Law Olmsted envisioned more than a century earlier.

The inevitable result was budget deficits that no one envisioned a few years earlier.

A device envisioned many years earlier by Galilei-but, mind you, envisioned, narrated, promised, never achieved, until Father Caspar set to work.

The Solidarity leader designated to be Poland's Prime Minister said today that he would consider giving the Communist Party more high-level Government posts than envisioned earlier, as the two sides appeared headed toward a period of hard bargaining on the new Cabinet.

Finally, in 2002, at the initiative of the Grand Theatre's then general director, Waldemar Dąbrowski, the sculpture that had been envisioned many years earlier came to adorn the façade.

On September 11, 1996 UP finally acquired SP in a transaction envisioned nearly a century earlier.

The Second Empire also completed the northern wing of the Louvre along the rue de Rivoli, linking the Tuileries Palace with the rest of the Louvre, and thus finally achieving the huge complex of the Louvre-Tuileries, whose master plan had been envisioned three centuries earlier.

Mr. Villepin renewed a call for an international peace conference earlier envisioned by Secretary Powell, which the administration has dismissed as premature.

But none of that success was envisioned one month earlier when he was offered the job.