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Read the poem and complete the web about the activities the planners do.
Solution
The Planners
- Plan and build.
- Grid all the spaces and fill them with permutations of possibilities.
- Rearrange buildings with roads that meet at desired points.
- Kick aside useless blocks with dental dexterity.
- Erase the flaws and blemishes of the past.
- Drill right through the fossils of the last century.
- Pile non-stop.
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