Word: delight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most ambitious, has preserved scores of blocks of dilapidated but essentially sound and potentially elegant 19th century red-brick row houses?something of a city trademark. For a $1 purchase price per house and the promise of "sweat equity," private citizens are restoring such historic neighborhoods as Ridgeley's Delight, Otterbein, Barre Circle, Stirling Street, Durham Street and Washington Hill. There is a similar program of "shopsteading," whereby businessmen are encouraged to salvage old stores. Notes City Planner Larry Reich: "Nothing happens here by itself. People have to make it happen...
...World, earned $42 million, created 2,300 jobs and returned to the city more than $1.1 million in taxes. More important, it has lived up to Master Planner Rouse's criterion of the inner city as "a warm and human place, with diversity of choice, full of festival and delight." Like Faneuil Hall Marketplace, it has helped restore a sense of community and vitality to a divided, decaying, once apathetic older city...
...yellow rubber duck (he is also affectionately known as Donald Duck). His penitential immersion was shared by a voluptuous model done up as a mermaid. Since he was the target of an assassination attempt by a deranged citizen in 1976, Schaefer has been dogged by security guards; his daily delight is to shake them...
...deep friend." The reunion was all harmony and grits. Out on the old softball field, with Rosalynn and Jehan looking on, Jimmy presented Sadat with a glass sculpture of a laurel wreath. Sadat was at his gracious best, although Carter's detractors will doubtless delight in misconstruing his words. Said he: "Jimmy Carter has left his fingerprints on the history...
...used to be." Coming from a pill-popping vodka swigger, this brings down the house. Dennis' ability to widen her eyes in engrossed shell shock, like a child who has dropped an ice cream cone, and to filter her voice through obdurate adenoids makes her an enduringly dotty delight...