Word: facelifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Museum of Modern Art reopens after a $55 million facelift...
...holds no top government or party title, the journey will reaffirm China's determination to broaden its ties with the West. It will also allow millions of Americans following Reagan's trip on television to get an unusually close look at a nation that has undergone a major facelift 'in the nine years since Gerald Ford, the last U.S. President to visit China, landed in Peking...
...advertisements for cameras, calculators and computers. The farming communes of the countryside, that ubiquitous trademark of the Maoist republic, have in effect been dismantled. Like the imposing façade of the main gate to Peking's Forbidden City, which is shrouded by scaffolding, all China is undergoing a radical facelift...
...layering of bene fits according to your income." The poor, in fact, are regularly euphemized into invisibility by being given new names such as "disadvantaged." One of the oddities of euphemisms, though, is that they tend to reacquire the unpleasant connotations of the words they supplant, like a facelift that begins to sag, and so they have to be periodically replaced. The world's poor nations have changed over the years from underdeveloped nations to developing nations to emerging nations...
...look. Twelve of the stores have opened in time for Christmas, and 99 more will be remodeled or built from scratch next year. By 1989, Sears will spend $1.7 billion to spruce up 600 of its 831 retail stores and build 62 new ones. It is the most expensive facelift in the company's history...