Word: blights
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...another story: his daughter is sick, he's haunted by memories of his dead wife, and his son is screwing up the landscaping business Jerry spent his life building. Of course, Jerry likes the picture the first way, but that second picture keeps looming. The quintessential novel of suburban blight, Aloft is as perfect and manicured as a Long Island, N.Y., lawn...
More than anyone, Hariri was responsible for resurrecting Lebanon from the chaos and blight of its bloody civil war, which ravaged the country from 1975 until 1990. During his tenure, gleaming hotels and apartment towers sprang up along Beirut's Mediterranean shore. Perhaps that is why it was there, on a bend in the famed seafront corniche just by the five-star Phoenicia Hotel, that a thunderous explosion blew apart Hariri's armor-plated convoy, killing him and 14 others. As the blast showered the pavement with broken glass and sent a column of black smoke into the sky, suspicion...
...Nickerson, the ECAC’s single-season record holder for penalty minutes, left the Golden Knights after his freshman year for a contract with the Dallas Stars, but he is the only major contributor not returning to the bench for Clarkson this season. Senior trio Mac Faulkner, Chris Blight and Jay Latulippe will be counted on for offensive performances mirroring those they turned in a season ago,but they’d better pick up Nickerson’s scoring slack as well, else the Golden Knights certainly won’t be returning to the ECAC championship game...
...neither a venerated symbol of American capitalism like the New York Stock Exchange building nor an iconic piece of modern architecture like the Citigroup building in midtown Manhattan, which houses America's biggest bank. It looms over a city that was once the very symbol of urban blight in America. On a clear day the more famous spires of Manhattan are visible from Newark, and so too is the empty space in the skyline on the island's southern tip, where once the city's two tallest buildings stood side by side...
Easy to say now, of course, but if they truly had this game under control from the start, they had everybody fooled. The No. 9-seeded Knights, bidding to become the lowest-seeded team to win the ECAC, staked out a 2-0 lead on goals by Chris Blight and Tristan Lush...