Word: facelifts
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...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...
...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...
...middle-aged U.S., its seas a little less shining, the waves of grain ringed by bald patches of subdivisions, the once purple mountains now mauve with smog. But the country does not age evenly. Alaska is barely in its adolescence; high tech has given sagging Massachusetts a facelift, and much of the South is having a rebirth. North Carolina is now tenth in population with the highest percentage of workers employed by industry. Unfortunately, there are signs of sclerosis in the heartland. "Sadly," say the authors, "the most resistant to change were the Midwestern states, where even in the depression...
...resulting patched leaks, painted walls and refinished floors have made inconveniences facts of life rather than bones of contention among students. But the most ambitious facelift of student facilities in Harvard's history has nevertheless necessitated a fluid planning process, foreign officials to strike a balance between maximum efficiency and minimal inconvenience...