Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Avol has spruced up his temporary roost with fresh coats of paint, but residents of the four-story building tell of crumbling plaster, missing windows, faulty plumbing, roaches and rats. "I catch a minimum of ten mice a week," says Tenant Jose Cavasos. Even if Avol substantially improves the building, his eye may be on the bottom line: the apartment house is up for sale...
Oral Roberts, fresh from a run of other controversies, claims to have raised the dead. -- The Pope and Billy Graham agree to meet...
Italians, with memories of Mussolini still fresh in their minds, went even further than the Germans in reining in the executive branch. While this has guarded against a new outbreak of tyranny, the inability of any one of Italy's parties to win a majority in parliament has led to frequent political turnover: Italy has had 46 governments since...
...would be dotted with names from Greco-Roman antiquity: Ithaca, Rome, Athens, Sparta, Troy. But the Virginia state capitol was quite new and at the same time old; the strength of its political symbolism was meant to lie in its appeal to a precolonial past, that of the fresh Roman Republic, untainted as yet by Caesarism. Its model, said Jefferson, was the "best morsel of ancient architecture now remaining. It has obtained the approbation of fifteen or sixteen centuries, and is, therefore, preferable to any design which might be newly contrived...
...White House may be more conciliatory than Congress. Though a senior State Department official says Japan and Norway "took their time waking up to the problem," he contends that both countries have since responded vigorously. President Reagan probably does not want a fresh trade confrontation with Tokyo; just two weeks ago he lifted some of the tariffs he had imposed on Japanese imports after the semiconductor dispute...